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Incremental Cost

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-014038

1. The additional cost associated with adding an increment of capacity.

2. The extra or additional costs imposed as a result of a regulatory policy. The term incremental is interchangeable with "marginal." If compliance requirements have different levels or degrees of achieving certain targets, then incremental costs can be associated with each level of compliance from the current state. [NYS 1998]

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-014038
FieldEnvironment
SubjectWater
ReferencesWater Conservation Plan Guidelines Glossary; Water Conservation Glossary; Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment
Record as JSON 
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    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment"
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Record 14,038 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.