(a) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Economic Development.

(b) Department means the Department of Economic Development.

(c) Eligible applicant or applicant means any State agency involved in promoting the economic development of the State, including but not limited to: the Departments of Economic Development, Agriculture and Markets, and Transportation; the Urban Development Corporation and the Job Development Authority; a municipality; an industrial development agency; or a local development corporation.

(d) Eligible project means an industrial infrastructure development project which is an integral part of an economic development effort which will retain, attract, expand or revitalize an industrial facility. A project upon which construction of the infrastructure has been initiated is not defined as an eligible project.

(e) Industrial facility means any type of facility to be used or occupied by any person in an enterprise deemed to offer a reasonable likelihood for promoting the creation or retention of job opportunities in the State, and includes, but is not limited to, industrial or manufacturing plants, facilities for research and development purposes, facilities for conducting wholesale receiving and distributing operations, facilities for conducting office operations, warehousing operations, agricultural operations, or any other operations dealing in the exchange of goods, wares, services, or other types of property of any type or description. A facility supporting primarily retail commercial operations is not defined as an industrial facility.

(f) Industrial Infrastructure Development Program or program shall mean the program established by article 13, section 250, of the Economic Development Law, as enacted by chapter 839 of the Laws of 1987.

(g) Industrial infrastructure development project means a project for the design, acquisition of property, construction and/or reconstruction in connection with storm and sanitary sewers, electric and gas service distribution lines, water supply systems, drainage systems, and site clearance, preparation, improvements and demolition.

(h) Primarily retail commercial operations means those operations at which the majority of sales are retail sales of goods or services to customers who personally visit the facility supporting the operations to obtain such goods or services.

(i) State agency means an office, department, board, commission, bureau, division, public corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State.