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N.Y. ENV Law § 17-1727

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Permission to discharge refuse or waste matter from industrial establishments

Official statutory text

* § 17-1727. Permission to discharge refuse or waste matter from\n industrial establishments.\n 1. Upon application duly made to the commissioner by the proprietor,\nlessee or tenant of any shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment\nfrom which the discharge of refuse or waste matter into any of the\nwaters of the state is otherwise prohibited by section 17-1701, the\ncommissioner shall have power to consider the case of the said shop,\nfactory, mill or industrial establishment, and whenever the public\nhealth and purity of the waters shall warrant it, he shall issue a\npermit for the discharge of refuse or waste matter from such shop,\nfactory, mill or industrial establishment into any of the waters of the\nstate, and may stipulate in the permit such modification, regulations\nand conditions as the public health may require.\n 2. Such permit before being operative shall be recorded in the county\nclerk's office of the county where such shop, factory, mill or\nindustrial establishment is located and a copy of such permit shall be\ntransmitted by the commissioner to the board of health of the\nmunicipality wherein the outlet discharging refuse or waste matter from\nsuch shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment shall be located.\n * NB Expired September 1, 1973\n

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