The agency has the authority to send a Bureau of Air Resources inspector to the scene to determine if the odor violates the code.

Your first step is to write or call the Bureau of Air Resources in the Department of Environmental Conservation.

The address for the Bureau of Air Resources is 295 Layfayette Street, New York, N.Y. 10012.

Tom Allen, acting director of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Air Resources, agreed.

Leeson was appointed Head of Air Resources and Plans in 2000, his promotion to Air Commodore following in July 2001.

The name can be normally be found on the copy of the plans that had to be submitted to the city's Department of Air Resources.

Their witnesses included Jack Fensterstock of the New York City Department of Air Resources, neighbourhood residents, as well as urban planners, economists and architects.

New York City's Bureau of Air Resources maintains a 24-hour hot line (966-7500).

Officials at the New York City Bureau of Air Resources, who enforce the code, concede that they do not have the manpower to respond to many noise complaints.

Stephen Majkut, the chief of the Office of Air Resources at the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, said there were other contributing factors.