Section 12-5-27. Authority to require owner or operator of facility to cooperate with division

   Whenever required to carry out the objectives of this article, including but not limited to developing or assisting in the development of any effluent limitation, or other limitation, prohibition, or standard under this article, or any rule or regulation promulgated and adopted pursuant to this article; determining whether any person is in violation of any effluent limitation, or other limitation, prohibition, or standard under this article, or any rule or regulation promulgated and adopted pursuant to this article; or encouraging or ensuring compliance with any effluent limitation or other prohibition or standard under this article or any rule or regulation promulgated and adopted pursuant to this article, the director may, by order, permit, or otherwise in writing, require the owner or operator of a facility of any type which results in the discharge of pollutants into the waters of the state to:

   (1) Establish and maintain records;

   (2) Make reports;

   (3) Install, use, and maintain monitoring equipment or methods, including, where appropriate, biological monitoring methods;

   (4) Sample such discharge, in accordance with such methods, at such locations, at such intervals, and in such manner as the director shall prescribe; and

   (5) Provide such other information as he may reasonably require.

Ga. L. 1974, p. 599, § 12.