Rule 3745-267-18 | Standards to select the location of the facility - standardized permitting.
(A) Owners or operators may not locate portions of new facilities where hazardous waste will be treated or stored within sixty-one meters (two hundred feet) of a fault that has had displacement in Holocene time.
(1) "Fault" means a fracture along which rocks on one side have been displaced with respect to those on the other side.
(2) "Displacement" means the relative movement of any two sides of a fault measured in any direction.
(3) "Holocene" means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene to the present.
[Comment: Procedures for demonstrating compliance with this standard are specified in paragraph (A)(11) of rule 3745-50-44 of the Administrative Code. Facilities which are located in political jurisdictions other than those listed in 40 CFR Part 264 appendix VI are assumed to be in compliance with this requirement.]
(B) If the facility is located in a one hundred-year flood plain, the facility shall be designed, constructed, operated, and maintained to prevent washout of any hazardous waste by a one hundred-year flood.
(1) "One hundred-year flood plain" means any land area that is subject to a one per cent or greater chance of flooding in any given year from any source.
(2) "Washout" means the movement of hazardous waste from the active portion of the facility as a result of flooding.
(3) "One hundred-year flood" means a flood that has a one per cent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
[Comment: For dates of non-regulatory government publications, publications of recognized organizations and associations, federal rules, and federal statutory provisions referenced in this rule, see rule 3745-50-11 of the Administrative Code titled "Incorporated by reference."]
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