(a) any public comments, testimony or other documentation concerning a permit application, including a permit renewal application, priority ranking fact sheet or request for permit modification, suspension or revocation; and
(b) any information obtained pursuant to any monitoring, records, reporting or sampling requirements or as a result of sampling or other investigatory activities of the department. 4. The department shall identify and hold confidential any information, except effluent data, SPDES permits, permit applications, including permit renewal applications priority ranking fact sheets or requests for permit modification, suspension or revocation, including information submitted on the forms themselves and any attachments used to supply information required by the forms, shown by any person to be information which, if made public, would divulge methods or processes entitled to protection as trade secrets of such person.