(1) Applicant means any person making an application or other request for an action by the authority.

(2) Chairman means the Chairman of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.

(3) Authority means the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.

(4) Exempt act means maintenance or repair involving no substantial changes in existing structure or facility, actions which are immediately necessary on a limited emergency basis for the protection or preservation of life, health, property or natural resources and all other types of actions listed in Appendix 23-A and Appendix 23-B of this Chapter, infra.

(5) Ministerial act means an act performed upon a given state of facts in a prescribed manner imposed by law without the exercise of any judgment or discretion as to the propriety of the action although the law may require in some degree a construction of its language or intent including all acts listed in Appendix 23-B of this Chapter, infra.

(1) DEIS means draft environmental impact statement.

(2) Environmental assessment means a written description and analysis of the environmental impact and effect of a proposed project or activity which addresses in detail the considerations listed in section 1157.4(a) of this Part.

(3) Environmental impact report means a written description and analysis of the environmental impact and effect of an applicant's proposed project or activity which addresses in detail all factors required to be considered in an impact statement by SEQR.

(4) FEIS means final environmental impact statement.

(5) Financial support means the provision of money or moneys through contracts, grants, subsidies, loans or other forms of funding assistance to an applicant for the applicant's use in undertaking a proposed project or activity.

(6) Permit means a lease, license, certificate, grant of permission or other entitlement for use or permission to act given by the authority.

(7) SEQR means the State Environmental Quality Review Act constituting article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law and any amendments thereto.

(8) Supplemental environmental impact report means a written description and analysis of the environmental impact and effect of an applicant's proposed project or activity which addresses in detail or responds to any and all comments received on the DEIS and at the hearing held for the applicant's proposed project or activity.

(9) Type II action means the actions or classes of actions which have been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment and which are not subject to this Part, including all those actions or classes of actions listed in Appendix 23-C of this Chapter, infra.