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What is NYC RCNY § 19.1-02.4?

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(a) Industrial stormwater sources must submit to the department copies of all documents submitted to NYSDEC under the MSGP, including, but not limited to, Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs), Annual Certification Reports, and Corrective Action Forms, and must copy the department on all permit-related correspondence wit

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Effective: 6/1/2019

§ 19.1-02.4 Recordkeeping.

RCNY § 19.1-02.4

(a)Industrial stormwater sources must submit to the department copies of all documents submitted to NYSDEC under the MSGP, including, but not limited to, Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs), Annual Certification Reports, and Corrective Action Forms, and must copy the department on all permit-related correspondence with NYSDEC.

(b)Industrial stormwater sources shall maintain and preserve copies of the NOI, NOT, Acknowledgement Letters, and the SWPPP for no fewer than five years from the date that the NYSDEC receives a complete NOT submitted in accordance with the MSGP, and shall maintain and preserve all monitoring records for a period of at least five years from the date of the sample, measurement, report, or application.

(c)Industrial stormwater sources must retain on-site and, upon request, make immediately available to the department, in accordance with applicable law, the following documents as evidence of compliance with applicable MSGP requirements: (1) Copies of the MSGP and NOI, as submitted to NYSDEC; (2) SWPPP; (3) Annual Certification Reports; (4) Comprehensive site inspection results; (5) Quarterly visual monitoring; (6) Annual dry weather flow monitoring; (7) Required monitoring data, including, but not limited to numeric benchmark monitoring; (8) Compliance monitoring for discharges subject to numeric effluent limitations; (9) Monitoring of discharges from secondary containment at storage and transfer areas; and (10) Monitoring of discharges to impaired waterbodies. (Added City Record 4/1/2019, eff. 6/1/2019)

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