New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Chapter X - DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Subchapter A - GENERAL
Article 3 - STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
Part 750 - STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (SPDES) PERMITS
Subpart 750-2 - OPERATING IN ACCORDANCE WITH A SPDES PERMIT AND POSS REGISTRATION
Section 750-2.3 - Inspection and entry
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
The permittee shall allow the commissioner, the regional administrator, the applicable county health department, or their authorized representatives, upon the presentation of credentials and other documents as may be required by law, to:
(a) enter upon the permittee's premises where a regulated facility or activity is located or conducted, or where records must be kept under the conditions of a SPDES permit;
(b) have access to and copy, at reasonable times, any records that must be kept under the conditions of the permit, including records required to be maintained for purposes of operation and maintenance;
(c) inspect at reasonable times any facilities, equipment (including monitoring and control equipment), practices, or operations regulated or required under the permit;
(d) sample or monitor at reasonable times, for the purposes of assuring permit compliance or as otherwise authorized by the act or ECL, any substances or parameter sat any location;
(e) enter upon the property of any contributor of wastewater to the system under authority of the permittee's Sewer Use Law, ordinance (municipalities) or regulations; and
(f) if any part of the permittee's sewer system or sewage treatment works is located on any property not owned by the permittee, the permittee must be able to reasonably demonstrate to the satisfaction of the department that it has legal access to these locations or facilities and ensure that the commissioner, the regional administrator or the county health department or any authorized representative thereof, upon presentation of credentials, will have access to these locations and facilities.
