Budget Function Description
Responsibilities include responding to 1,360 hazardous material emergency incidents annually; maintaining a comprehensive database of 3,700 facilities containing hazardous and toxic materials, managing environmental investigations and assessments of contaminated sites, overseeing the remediation of four active hazardous waste municipal landfills, conducting 24,000 field inspections in response to 15,000 air and noise code complaints in a year, helping implement the requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, meeting with community and various public interest associations regularly to provide general information and promote compliance, and operating a New York State approved environmental laboratory to perform analysis of asbestos, air pollutant and hazardous materials samples.