New York Laws
Title 8 - State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
17-0805 - Notice and Public Participation; Access to Information.

(a) any public comments, testimony or other documentation concerning a
permit application, including a permit renewal application, priority
ranking fact sheet or request for permit modification, suspension or
revocation; and
(b) any information obtained pursuant to any monitoring, records,
reporting or sampling requirements or as a result of sampling or other
investigatory activities of the department.

4. The department shall identify and hold confidential any
information, except effluent data, SPDES permits, permit applications,
including permit renewal applications priority ranking fact sheets or
requests for permit modification, suspension or revocation, including
information submitted on the forms themselves and any attachments used
to supply information required by the forms, shown by any person to be
information which, if made public, would divulge methods or processes
entitled to protection as trade secrets of such person.

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