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Regulations for purpose of environmental inspections
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89. (1) The Minister may, for the purposes of achieving the environmental objectives and ensuring compliance with this Act, make regulations providing for the carrying out by the Agency or a local authority of environmental inspections.
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(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under this section may make provision for all or any of the following—
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(a) the organisation, prioritisation and carrying out of environmental inspections,
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(b) the preparation of plans for environmental inspections, the procedures to be followed in the preparation of such plans, the scope and contents of such plans, arrangements for their review, and the period in respect of which they are to apply,
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(c) the frequency of site visits and the matters to be examined in the course of such visits,
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(d) the preparation of reports following site visits and the making available to the public of certain information in relation to those reports, and the period within which each of those things is to be done,
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(e) the investigation of incidents relating to an abstraction that may cause or are likely to cause a failure to meet the environmental objectives, and
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(f) the period during which and purpose (including the purpose of preparing River Basin Management Plans) for which a record of an environmental inspection may be retained by a local authority or the Agency.
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