§ 27-1305. Reports by the department; registry of sites.\n 1. The department shall maintain and make available for public\ninspection, either at each of its regional offices and regional\nsub-offices, at the office of the county clerk or register for each\ncounty and at the office of the town clerk for each town in Suffolk and\nNassau counties, or on its website, a registry of inactive hazardous\nwaste disposal sites in such region or, with respect to the office of\nthe county clerk or register, in such county, or with respect to its\nwebsite, the entire state. The department shall provide a written copy\nupon requests by any person. The department shall take all necessary\naction to ensure that the registry provides a complete and up-to-date\nlisting of all such sites within the region. The department shall, on or\nbefore January first, two thousand four, and annually thereafter,\ntransmit the updated registry to the legislature and the governor. A\nnotice of the availability of the updated registry shall be sent to the\ndepartment of health and the chief executive officer of every county.\nUpon identification of an inactive hazardous waste disposal site not\nincluded in the registry for the immediately preceding year, the\ndepartment shall notify in writing the chief executive officer of each\ncounty, city, town and village and the public water supplier which\nservices the area in which such site is located that such site has been\nso identified. For the purposes of this section, "water supplier" shall\nmean any public water system as such term is defined for the purposes of\nthe sanitary code of the state of New York as authorized by section two\nhundred twenty-five of the public health law. Such registry shall\ninclude but need not be limited to those items among the following which\nthe commissioner determines to be necessary:\n a. A description of the sites consisting of:\n (i) a general description of the site, which shall include the name,\nif any, of the site, the address of the site, the type and quantity of\nthe hazardous waste disposed of at the site and the name of the current\nowners of the site;\n (ii) an assessment by the department of any significant environmental\nproblems at and near the site;\n (iii) an assessment prepared by the department of health of any\nserious health problems in the immediate vicinity of the site and any\nhealth problems deemed by the department of health to be related to\nconditions at the site;\n (iv) the status of any testing, monitoring or remedial actions in\nprogress or recommended by the department;\n (v) the status of any pending legal actions and any federal, state or\nlocal government permits or approvals concerning the site; and\n (vi) an assessment of the relative priority of the need for action at\neach site to remedy environmental and health problems resulting from the\npresence of wastes at such site;\n b. Address and site boundaries including tax map parcel numbers or\nsection, block and lot numbers, and if the site is located within a\ndisadvantaged community;\n c. Time period of use for disposal of hazardous waste;\n d. Name of the current owner and operator and names of any past and\nreported owners and operators during the time period of use for disposal\nof hazardous waste;\n e. Names of persons responsible for the generation and transportation\nof hazardous waste disposed of;\n f. Type and quantity of hazardous waste disposed of;\n g. Manner of disposal of hazardous waste;\n h. Nature of soils at the site;\n i. Depth of water table at the site;\n j. Location, nature and size of aquifers at the site;\n k. Direction of present and historic groundwater flows at the site;\n l. Location, nature and size of all surface waters at and near the\nsite;\n m. Levels of contaminants, if any, in groundwater, surface water, air\nand soils at and near the site resulting from hazardous wastes disposed\nof at the site or from any other cause and areas known to
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