New York Laws
Title 8 - State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
17-0829 - Inspection and Entry.

(a) To carry out the purposes of this Act or any rule, regulation,
order, or permit, issued thereunder, the department or its authorized
representative, upon presentation of his credentials:
(1) shall have a right of entry to, upon, or through any premises in
which any effluent source is located or in which any records are
required to be maintained;
(2) may at reasonable times have access to and copy any records
required to be maintained;
(3) may inspect any monitoring equipment or method which is required;
and
(4) may have access to and sample any discharges or pollutants to
waters or to publicly owned treatment works resulting directly or
indirectly from activities or operations of the owner or operator of the
premises in which the effluent source is located.
(b) For the purposes of this section the term "effluent source" shall
mean:
(1) a point source of the discharge of pollutants or
(2) a source of introduction of pollutants into publicly owned
treatment works by an industrial user.

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