N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1307 – Reports to the department
§ 27-1307. Reports to the department.
Terms Used In N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1307
- Disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
- Hazardous waste: means a waste which appears on the list or satisfies the characteristics promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to section 27-0903 of this article and any substance which appears on the list promulgated pursuant to section 37-0103 of this chapter; provided, however, that the term "hazardous waste" does not include:
a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301 - Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, limited liability company, corporation, joint venture, partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, public benefit corporation or any interstate body. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
- Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, whether or not such material may eventually be used for some other purpose, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations or from community activities, and source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, except as may be provided by existing agreements between the state of New York and the government of the United States, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under article seventeen of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
1. In order to facilitate the department's efforts to secure information about inactive hazardous waste disposal sites in the state, any person shall, upon the request of the department, furnish to the department, in a form and manner prescribed by the department, the following information:
a. The name and location of facilities within the state that have generated significant quantities of hazardous wastes or sites within the state which have received wastes which are now or were formerly owned or operated by such person or to or from which such person has transported such wastes;
b. A description of current and past waste generating and disposal activities at facilities identified pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision which have generated hazardous wastes including products manufactured or services provided, generic type of processes used in the manufacturing of products or provision of services, the type and annual quantity of hazardous wastes generated in significant quantities, the locations of all sites used for the disposal of wastes generated by such facilities, the years of use of such sites for the disposal of wastes, the type and quantity of waste disposed of at such sites and the manner of disposal of hazardous wastes at such sites;
c. A description of current and past waste disposal activities at sites identified pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision which have received wastes including years of use of such sites for the disposal of wastes, type and quantity of all hazardous wastes disposed of at such sites and the manner of disposal of hazardous wastes at such sites;
d. With respect to each site identified pursuant to paragraphs a and b of this subdivision, names of persons that have transported hazardous wastes to such sites, a description of any testing, monitoring or remedial actions undertaken or planned at such sites and any significant health or environmental problems known or suspected to exist at such sites; and
e. Any other information that the department may deem necessary to prepare the state inactive hazardous waste remedial plan or the registry required by section 27-1305 of this article.
2. In the event the person furnishing such information cannot fully comply with the request for information, such person shall set forth his efforts to comply with such request.
3. Any information submitted to the department shall be considered a "written instrument" as defined in subdivision three of § 175.00 of the penal law.