Section 37-0301. Definitions

As  used  in  this title, the following terms shall have the following
  meanings:
    1. "Facility" means all buildings, equipment,  structures,  and  other
  stationary items located on a single site or adjacent sites and owned or
  operated  by  the  same  person  (or  by  any  person  who  controls, is
  controlled by, or is under common control with, such person).
    2. "State agency" means:
    (a) each state department;
    (b) division of military and naval affairs, division of state  police,
  division of housing and community renewal, division for youth, office of
  general services, office of parks, recreation and historic preservation,
  and state university of New York;
    (c)  any  division,  board, commission, office, or bureau of any state
  department which is required to obtain a permit issued by the department
  or which undertakes an activity for which  it  must  register  with  the
  department; and
    (d)   dormitory  authority  of  the  state  of  New  York,  facilities
  development   corporation,   metropolitan    transportation    authority
  (including the operations of all of its operating units), New York state
  energy  research and development authority, New York state environmental
  facilities corporation, New  York  state  olympic  regional  development
  authority,  New  York  state  thruway  authority,  New  York state urban
  development corporation, port authority of New York and New Jersey,  and
  power authority of the state of New York.
    3.  The  term  "manufacture"  means  to  produce,  prepare, import, or
  compound a toxic chemical.
    4. The term "process" means the preparation of a toxic chemical, after
  its manufacture, for distribution  in  commerce  in  the  same  form  or
  physical  state  as, or in a different form or physical state from, that
  in which it was received by the person so preparing such chemical, or as
  part of an article containing the toxic chemical.
    5. The term "release" means any spilling, leaking,  pumping,  pouring,
  emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping,
  or   disposing  into  the  environment  (including  the  abandonment  or
  discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles) of  any
  hazardous chemical, extremely hazardous substance, or toxic chemical.
    6.  The  term "toxic chemical" means a substance on the list described
  in 42 U.S.C. § 11023(c).