As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
APPLICANT
The person filing an application pursuant to this chapter.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Hartford Town Board.
BOUNDARIES OF A WETLAND, WATER BODY OR WATERCOURSE
The outer limit of the vegetation specified in Subsection A of the definition of "wetlands" below or of the land and waters specified in Subsections B, C and D of the definition of "wetlands" below or of the waters specified in the definitions of "water bodies" and "watercourses" below or of the soils specified in Subsection E of the definition of "wetlands" below.
COMPLETED APPLICATION
An application in which all necessary information and other approvals required by any other entity or relevant law or regulation are provided to the Town Board. If the Hartford Town Board is engaged in a coordinated review with other regulating entities, such information may be provided to the Town Board in accordance with the applicable coordinated review procedure.
COMPOSTING
The controlled biological breakdown of organic material, including the biological breakdown of septage.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION (C&D) DEBRIS
Uncontaminated solid waste resulting from the construction, remodeling, repair and demolition of utilities, structures and roads; and uncontaminated solid waste resulting from land clearing. Such waste includes, but is not limited to, bricks, concrete and other masonry materials, soil, rock, wood (including painted, treated and coated wood and wood products), land clearing debris, wall coverings, plaster, drywall, plumbing fixtures, nonasbestos insulation, roofing shingles and other roof coverings, asphaltic pavement, glass, plastics that are not sealed in a manner that conceals other wastes, empty buckets 10 gallons or less in size and having no more than one inch of residue remaining on the bottom, electrical wiring and components containing no hazardous liquids, and pipe and metals that are incidental to any of the above. Solid waste that is not C&D debris (even if resulting from the construction, remodeling, repair and demolition of utilities, structures and roads and land clearing) includes, but is not limited to, asbestos waste, garbage, corrugated container board, electrical fixtures containing hazardous liquids such as fluorescent light ballasts or transformers, fluorescent lights, carpeting, furniture, appliances, tires, drums, containers greater than 10 gallons in size, any containers having more than one inch of residue remaining on the bottom, and fuel tanks. Specifically excluded from the definition of construction and demolition debris is solid waste (including what otherwise would be construction and demolition debris) resulting from any processing technique, other than that employed at a Department of Environmental Conservation-approved C&D debris processing facility, that renders individual waste components unrecognizable, such as pulverizing or shredding. Also, waste contained in an illegal disposal site may be considered C&D debris if the Department of Environmental Conservation determines that such waste is similar in nature and content to C&D debris.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS PROCESSING FACILITY
A processing facility that receives and processes construction and demolition debris by any means for the purpose of recycling the received waste.
DISPOSE
"Dispose" and all of its derivatives, shall mean to dump, deposit or throw away refuse by a person with the consent or approval, active or passive, of a person in a position to control or prevent the same. The term "dispose" shall not include recycling, but shall include composting, unless said composting is for an individual's or farmer's usage only.
HARTFORD PLANNING BOARD
The Planning Board of the Town of Hartford, New York.
LANDFILL
A disposal area conducted in compliance with the regulations prescribed herein.
OPERATOR
A person who shall operate a landfill site for which a permit is granted hereunder.
PERMITTEE and LICENSEE
Terms may be used interchangeably.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, organization or legal entity of any kind, including municipal corporations, governmental agencies or subdivisions thereof, except as otherwise provided in § 71-21 herein.
POLLUTION
The introduction into the environment of human-induced conditions or contaminants in quantities or characteristics which are or may be injurious to human, plant or wild life or other animal life or property.
PREMISES
The entire site of the landfill, including buffer zones.
REFUSE
Include any one or more of the following: garbage, trash, rubbish and similar used or waste material, excluding waste from agricultural production or its by-products, such as livestock manure.
SENSITIVE SOILS
Somewhat poorly drained soils, poorly drained soils, and very poorly drained soils, as identified by data from the United States Department of Agriculture and designated on its official Soils Maps for Washington County, including, but not limited to, the following classifications:
(25)
Sun loam
(27)
Sun, extremely stony silt loam; Fredon
(35)
Raynham silt loam
(101)
Carlisle muck
(103)
Freshwater marsh
(251A)
Ridgebury loam
(311)
Fluvaquent
(1011)
Palms muck
(1251A)
Leicester loam
(1252B)
Leicester, very stony loam
SEPTAGE
The contents of a septic tank, cesspool or other individual sewage treatment facility which receives sewage wastes.
SOILS MAP
The Soils Map of the United States Department of Agriculture for Washington County.
SOLID WASTES
Any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permit under 33 U.S.C. § 1342, as amended (86 Stat. 880), or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923), except as may be provided by existing agreements between the State of New York and the government of the United States.
SPECIAL WASTES
See Article V herein.
STATE MAP
The freshwater wetlands map prepared by the State of New York pursuant to Article 24 of the Environmental Conservation Law, as same may from time to time be amended.
WATER BODY
Any body of standing water which exists at least nine months of the year, and which, when wet, is customarily more than 5,000 square feet in water surface area.
WATERCOURSES
Any body of water flowing in an identifiable channel or course at least nine months of the year.
WETLANDS
All lands and waters in the Town of Hartford, excluding any such lands and waters now or hereafter designated on the State Map or which the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation has exempted from local regulations pursuant to § 24-0505 of the New York State Environmental Conservation Law, which have a contiguous area of at least 7,000 square feet and which contain any or all of the following:
A. 
Lands and submerged lands commonly called marshes, swamps, sloughs, bogs and flats, whether flooded at all times, flooded only seasonally or having a water table during at least three consecutive months of the year within six inches of the ground surface or supporting aquatic or semi-aquatic vegetation of the types listed in § 24-0107, Subdivision 1(a), of Article 24 of the Environmental Conservation Law.
B. 
Lands and submerged lands containing remnants of any vegetation that is not aquatic or semi-aquatic, that has died because of wet conditions over a sufficiently long period, provided that such wet conditions do not exceed a maximum seasonal water depth of six feet, and provided, further, that such conditions can be expected to persist indefinitely, barring human intervention.
C. 
Lands and water substantially enclosed by aquatic or semi-aquatic vegetation as set forth in Subsection A or by dead vegetation as set forth in Subsection B, the regulation of which is necessary to protect and preserve the aquatic and semi-aquatic vegetation.
D. 
The waters overlying the areas set forth in Subsections A and B and the lands underlying Subsection C.
E. 
Lands and submerged lands containing sensitive soils where the slope is less than 3% and where typical wetland vegetation and a groundwater table within six inches of the ground surface for over three consecutive months in the year are found.