25 Pa. Code § 109.6 - Inspection authorization
(a) At
any reasonable time, the Department and its agents and employes will:
(1) Have access to and require the production
of any feature of a public water system, monitoring system and books, papers,
records and data pertinent to any matter under investigation or required to be
kept under the act or this chapter.
(2) Enter and examine a property, facility,
operation or activity under the control of a public water system and conduct
tests and sampling, including the examination and copying of books, papers,
records and data, for the purpose of making an investigation or inspection as
may be necessary to ascertain the compliance or noncompliance by a person with
the environmental acts, the act or this chapter.
(b) The Department and its agents and
employes may conduct inspections of public water systems at least once prior to
construction or modification, at least once during construction or
modification, at least once prior to operation and at least once per year
thereafter.
(c) The Department and
its agents and employes may conduct additional inspections, including follow-up
inspections, of public water systems and activities related to public health,
safety, welfare or the environment, to determine compliance with the act, the
environmental acts, this title, the terms or conditions of a permit or the
requirements of an order.
(d) The
Department and its agents and employes may also conduct inspections of public
water systems and related activities whenever a person presents information to
the Department which gives the Department reason to believe that a condition
exists which may threaten the public health, safety or welfare or the
environment, or a person:
(1) Is in violation
of a requirement of the act, this chapter, an order or a permit issued
thereunder.
(2) May have violated
an environmental act, or a condition of a permit issued under a regulation
promulgated under an environmental act.
(e) This section is subject to the
availability of personnel and financial resources. This section does not create
a duty by the Department to conduct, or a right in a person to expect, a
minimum number of inspections per year, inspections for a particular reason or
during a certain period or set a maximum number of
inspections.
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