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Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATIONChapter IV - QUALITY SERVICESSubchapter I - Climate Change
Part 490 - Projected Sea-Level Rise
Section 490.3 - Definitions

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 6 § 490.3

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Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
Section 490.3 - Definitions

For the purposes of this Part, the following definitions apply:

(a) '2030s'. The years 2030 through 2039.
(b) '2050s'. The years 2050 through 2059.
(c) '2080s'. The years 2080 through 2089.
(d) 'Baseline level'. The average level of the surface of marine or tidal water over the years 1995 through 2014.
(e) 'Community Risk and Resiliency Act'. Chapter 355 of the Laws of 2014.
(f) 'Department'. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
(g) 'High-medium projection'. The amount of sea level rise that is unlikely (the 75th percentile of New York State Climate Impacts Assessment projections) to be exceeded by the specified time interval.
(h) 'High projection'. The amount of sea level rise that is associated with high rates of melt of land-based ice and is very unlikely (the 90th percentile of New York State Climate Impacts Assessment projections) to be exceeded by the specified time interval.
(i) 'Long Island Region'. The marine coast of Nassau and Suffolk counties.
(j) 'Lower Hudson-New York City Region'. The main stem of the Hudson River, south from the mouth of Rondout Creek at Kingston, New York, and the marine coast of the five boroughs of New York City and the Long Island Sound in Westchester County.
(k) 'Low-medium projection'. The amount of sea level rise that is likely (the 25th percentile of New York State Climate Impacts Assessment projections) to be exceeded by the specified time interval.
(l) 'Low projection'. The amount of sea level rise that is very likely (the 10th percentile of New York State Climate Impacts Assessment projections) to be exceeded by the specified time interval.
(m) 'Medium projection'. The amount of sea level rise that is about as likely as not (the mean of the 25th- and 75th- percentile New York State Climate Impacts Assessment projections) to be exceeded by the specified time interval.
(n) 'Mid-Hudson Region'. The main stem of the Hudson River, from the federal dam at Troy to the mouth of Rondout Creek at Kingston, New York.
(o) 'New York State Climate Impacts Assessment projections'. Projections based on the outputs of global climate models, downscaled to New York, and additional information, including information to account for anticipated changes in the rates of ice melt that cannot yet be more rigorously included in quantitative models.
(p) 'Rapid Ice Melt Projection'. The amount of sea level rise that is plausible in a scenario characterized by rapid melt of land-based ice, and instability of ice shelves and marine ice cliffs.
(q) 'Sea level rise'. The increase in the average level of the surface of marine or tidal water for the specified geographic region.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 6 § 490.3

Adopted New York State Register February 22, 2017/Volume XXXIX, Issue 08, eff. 2/22/2017
Amended New York State Register September 25, 2024/Volume XLVI, Issue 39, eff. 9/25/2024