New York Environmental Conservation Law Title 8 - STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM

• 17-0801 - Purpose.
  To create a state pollutant discharge elimination system (SPDES) to insure that the State of New York shall possess adequate authority to issue permits regulating...
• 17-0803 - Spdes Permits; Application.
  Except as provided by subdivision five of section 17-0701 of this article, it shall be unlawful to discharge pollutants to the waters of the state...
• 17-0804 - Rules and Regulations.
  The rules and regulations adopted by the department to implement this title and the provisions of article 70 of this chapter and rules and regulations...
• 17-0805 - Notice and Public Participation; Access to Information.
  1. a. Public notice of a complete application for a SPDES permit, including: (i) all renewals of SPDES permits issued in lieu of NPDES permits;...
• 17-0807 - Prohibited Discharges.
  The following discharges into the waters of the state are hereby prohibited. 1. the discharge of any radiological, chemical or biological warfare agent or high-level...
• 17-0808 - Municipal and Industrial Stormwater Discharges.
  1. Prior to October first, nineteen hundred ninety-two, no permit shall be required for discharges composed entirely of stormwater, except as provided in subdivision two...
• 17-0809 - Effluent Limitations.
  1. SPDES permits issued pursuant hereto shall contain applicable effluent limitations as required by the Act and as may be promulgated by the department. 2....
• 17-0810 - Stormwater Management Design Manual Modification.
  On or before one year following the effective date of this section, the department shall modify the New York State Stormwater Management Design Manual to...
• 17-0811 - Application of Effluent Standards and Limitations; Water Quality Standards; Other Requirements.
  SPDES permits issued pursuant hereto shall include provisions requiring compliance with the following, where applicable; 1. effluent limitation. 2. standards of performance for new sources....
• 17-0813 - Compliance Schedules.
  SPDES permits issued pursuant hereto may contain compliance schedules. Such compliance schedules shall require that the permittee within the shortest reasonable time consistent with the...
• 17-0815 - Spdes Permits; Additional Terms and Conditions.
  SPDES permits shall include the following provisions, terms, requirements and conditions; 1. that all discharges authorized by the permit shall be consistent with the provisions,...
• 17-0815-a - Discharge Point Signs.
  1. Any person possessing a SPDES permit which allows the discharge of waste water into the surface waters of the state shall post a sign...
• 17-0816 - Coordination With Aem Program.
  To the extent practical and consistent with the purposes of this title and title seven of this article, SPDES permits for farm operations participating in...
• 17-0817 - Spdes Permits; Duration and Reissuance.
  1. SPDES permits issued in lieu of national pollutant discharge elimination system permits shall be valid for a fixed term not to exceed five years....
• 17-0819 - Applications, Reports, Notices; Provisions to Insure Verity.
  All applications, reports, notices or notifications required or authorized to be made or filed by this title or by rules or regulations promulgated pursuant hereto...
• 17-0821 - Fees.
  The department is hereby authorized to establish a schedule of reasonable fees, such schedule taking into consideration the volume of the discharge and treatment costs,...
• 17-0823 - Power Plant Siting.
  In the case of a major steam electric generating facility, as defined in section one hundred forty of the public service law, for the construction...
• 17-0825 - Discharges of Industrial Waste to Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
  Persons discharging industrial waste to a publicly owned treatment works shall comply with toxic effluent standards and pretreatment standards and to monitoring, reporting, recording, sampling...
• 17-0826 - Notification of Discharges Affecting Groundwaters.
  Whenever a provision of this title is violated by a facility operating under or pursuant to a SPDES permit and located within an area designated...
• 17-0826-a - Mandatory Sewage Release Reporting and Notification by Publicly Owned Treatment Works and Operators of Publicly Owned Sewer Systems.
  1. Publicly owned treatment works or the operator of a publicly owned sewer system shall immediately, but in no case later than two hours after...
• 17-0827 - Conflicts of Interest.
  The commissioner of the department or his designee responsible for issuance of SPDES permits hereunder, is hereby prohibited from receiving, or during two years prior...
• 17-0828 - Discharges Affecting Groundwaters.
  In addition to any other requirements imposed by this title, any person seeking a SPDES permit or a renewal hereunder, within an area designated pursuant...
• 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...
• 17-0831 - Environmental Monitors for Tankers.
  1. At the discretion of the commissioner, a tanker withdrawing or transporting water where such withdrawal or transport was authorized pursuant to a permit issued...

Last modified: February 3, 2019