Section 18-101. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context
  otherwise requires:
    1. "Commissioner"   means   the    commissioner    of    environmental
  conservation.
    2. "Board" means the state board on temporary nuclear waste repository
  siting established by section 18-105 of this article.
    3. "Application" means an application for a certificate.
    4. "Certificate"  means  a  temporary  nuclear waste repository siting
  certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of this article.
    5. "Person"   means   any   individual,   partnership,    association,
  corporation,   public   benefit   corporation,  municipality,  political
  subdivision, governmental agency (including any agency  of  the  federal
  government), trust, estate, or other legal entity.
    6. "Municipality" means a county, city, town or village.
    7. "Temporary nuclear waste repository" means any facility where spent
  fuel  rods  from nuclear reactors are received on or after the effective
  date of this article and are stored pending further or  final  disposal,
  except  a  facility located in the immediate vicinity of a nuclear power
  generating facility or an operating nuclear reactor  which  is  used  to
  store, on an interim or temporary basis, spent nuclear fuel from nuclear
  power  generating  facilities  or  operating nuclear reactors located in
  this state.