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...(A) Not later than twenty-four months after May 28, 1992, each owner or operator of a class I injection well facility shall prepare and adopt a waste minimization and treatment plan to identify the specific technically and economically feasible measures that will be taken to prevent or reduce releases into the environment of the industrial waste and other wastes generated at the facility and, in the case of such an ...

...(A) As used in this section, "structural products" means products that are created from clay, shale, or a combination of clay and shale, are generated as a result of a manufacturing process that is designed to create products intended to form part of a building or other structure, and are no longer wanted for that originally intended use. "Structural products" includes floor tiles, bricks, paving bricks, terra-cotta ...

...After January 1, 1990, no person shall sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in the counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull, Lake, Geauga, Portage, Stark, Cuyahoga, Summit, Medina, Lorain, Ashland, Richland, Huron, Erie, Crawford, Marion, Wyandot, Seneca, Sandusky, Ottawa, Lucas, Wood, Hancock, Hardin, Fulton, Henry, Putnam, Allen, Auglaize, Shelby, Mercer, Van Wert, Paulding, Defiance, and Williams, a household laund...

...The director of environmental protection may enter into an agreement with a political subdivision or investor-owned public utility that owns or operates a disposal system and that intends to extend the sewerage lines of its disposal system or to increase the number of service connections to its sewerage system, which agreement authorizes a qualified official or employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned ...

...(A) Applications for a section 401 water quality certification required under division (O) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code shall be submitted on forms provided by the director of environmental protection and shall include all information required on those forms as well as all of the following: (1) A copy of a letter from the United States army corps of engineers documenting its jurisdiction over the wetlands...

...As used in sections 6111.31 to 6111.316 of the Revised Code: (A) "Area of mitigation" or "AMIT" means the area of mitigation, as calculated using the formula specified in division (A) of section 6111.313 of the Revised Code, expressed in feet squared. (B) Area of the streamway or "ASW" means the area of the streamway, expressed in feet squared. (C) "DA" means drainage area, expressed in square miles. (D) "Eig...

...(A) The director of environmental protection may impose all of the following mitigation reporting and monitoring requirements on any person performing mitigation as required under division (B)(1)(a) of section 6111.313 of the Revised Code: (1) A requirement that all mitigation for an ephemeral feature that is a water of the state be monitored for up to two years following the completion of mitigation construction a...

...The director of environmental protection may require any person required to perform mitigation under division (B)(1)(a) or (B)(2) of section 6111.313 of the Revised Code to also perform best management practices. Best management practices include the following: (A) All ephemeral features that are a water of the state that are to be avoided shall be clearly indicated on site drawings, demarcated in the field, and pr...

...(A) In order to ensure the regular and orderly maintenance of federal navigation channels and ports in this state, the director of environmental protection shall endeavor to work with the United States army corps of engineers on a dredging plan that focuses on long-term planning for the disposition of dredged material consistent with the requirements established in this section. (B) On and after July 1, 2020, no per...

...The environmental protection agency shall do all of the following: (A) Primarily with regard to water quality, collect, study, and interpret all available information, statistics, and data pertaining to the supply, use, conservation, and replenishment of the ground and surface waters in the state in coordination with other agencies of this state; (B) Primarily with regard to water quality, be authorized to cooperat...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, in section 6111.14 of the Revised Code, or in rules adopted under division (G) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code, no municipal corporation, county, public institution, corporation, or officer or employee thereof or other person shall provide or install sewerage or treatment works for sewage, sludge, or sludge materials disposal or treatment or mak...

...(A)(1) The director of environmental protection shall adopt rules that establish criteria for three levels of credible data related to surface water monitoring and assessment. The rules pertaining to each level shall establish requirements for data assessment, sample collection and analytical methods, and quality assurance and quality control procedures that must be followed in order to classify data as credibl...

...The director of environmental protection shall use only level three credible data to conduct any of the following activities: (A) Developing, reviewing, and revising use designations in water quality standards; (B) Developing a statewide water quality inventory or other water assessment report; (C) Identifying, listing, and delisting waters of the state for the purpose of section 303(d) of the Federal Water Pollut...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall establish and maintain a water quality monitoring program to collect levels one, two, and three credible data for surface water monitoring and assessment. In the same manner provided in division (A)(2) of section 6111.51 of the Revised Code, the director shall adopt rules establishing the program. The rules shall describe the training and experience that are required...

...(A) Before establishing a final TMDL and plans and actions necessary for TMDL implementation, the director of environmental protection shall prepare an official draft TMDL. The official draft TMDL shall include, at a minimum, both of the following: (1) An estimate of the total amount of each pollutant that causes water quality impairment from all sources; (2) An estimate of the total amount of pollutants that may b...

...Before issuing a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit for discharges from a publicly owned sewerage system, requiring and approving a long-term control plan for wet weather discharges from a publicly owned sewerage system, or enforcing the Federal Water Pollution Control Act as applied to publicly owned sewerage systems, the director of environmental protection, to the extent allowable under t...

...(A) Whoever purposely violates section 6111.04, 6111.042, 6111.05, or division (A) or (C) of section 6111.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony and shall be fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than four years, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense. (B) Whoever knowingly violates section 6111.04, 6111.042, 6111.045, 6111.047, 6111.05, 6111.45, or division (A) ...

...As used in sections 6112.01 to 6112.05, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Sewage" means any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, which pollutes the waters of the state. (B) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or ...

...As used in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Publication" means once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the counties wherein publication is to be made or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Publication need not be made on the same day of the week in each of the weeks; but not less than fourteen days, excluding the day of first publicati...

...(A) In any orders of court the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding" are equivalent to a finding that each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order, meets every legal requirement imposed by sections 6115.01...

...The court of common pleas of any county in this state, when the conditions stated in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code are found to exist, may establish sanitary districts within the county in which the court is located. Districts partly within and partly without such county may also be established by a court comprised of one judge of the court of common pleas from each county having area within the district, as...

...(A) With respect to sanitary districts organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, there shall be appointed, within thirty days after the court enters the decree incorporating the district, a sanitary district advisory council. The council shall consist of one member to be appointed from each municipal corporation, county, township, city health dist...

...The powers of the board of directors of a sanitary district do not include construction and maintenance of lateral sewers, sewerage systems, water mains, and distributing systems or other related improvements for local service within the political subdivisions forming the district, and such improvements shall in every case be provided by the public corporations or persons served by the works of the district. The powe...

...The board of directors of a sanitary district may make and enforce necessary regulations pertaining to the use by public corporations and persons of the works and improvements of the district, and by such regulations the board may: (A) Prescribe the design, construction, and use of sewers within the district; (B) Prescribe the manner in which connections to trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, pipe lines, and other w...

...Upon the filing of the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district under section 6115.33 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court shall give notice by publication thereof, as provided in section 6115.01 of the Revised Code, in each county in the district. The notice shall be substantially as set forth in division (E) of section 6115.79 of the Revised Code. It is not necessary for the clerk to name the...