1. The provisions of this article shall not be construed to limit in
any manner the functions, powers and duties of the commissioner or the
department of environmental conservation, or of any other state
department or agency, under this chapter or any other laws.
2. The commissioner, his agents or employees and the personnel of the
Adirondack park agency may enter upon any lands or waters after
reasonable notice and for good cause shown for the purpose of
undertaking any investigations, examination, survey, or other activity
for the purposes of this article.
3. The commissioner may adopt and, from time to time, amend rules and
regulations consistent with this article to assist him in carrying out
his functions, powers and duties hereunder.
4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a privately
owned parcel of land or part thereof within the county of Richmond that
did not contain a designation as a freshwater wetland on the tentative
freshwater wetlands map filed in the office of the clerk of Richmond
county in 1981 shall not be on any tentative freshwater wetlands map if
the landowner has any written determination from the department pursuant
to subdivision five of section 24-0703 of this article that such parcel
of land or part thereof did not meet the statutory definition of a
freshwater wetland. Such representations shall be considered to have
been definitive when made, and such parcel or part thereof shall not be
designated as a freshwater wetland on any final map filed in the office
of the clerk of Richmond county pursuant to this article. The provisions
of this subdivision shall not apply to any parcel of land or part
thereof, purchased after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven,
or to any such parcel or part thereof owned wholly or in part by any
unit of government or agency or subdivision thereof, any authority or
agency existing pursuant to governmental action, or subdivision thereof;
including the state and the city of New York.