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...(A) The director of environmental protection shall employ and equip such individuals as are needed to adequately and regularly inspect and monitor operating hazardous waste facilities, infectious waste treatment facilities, or solid waste facilities located off the premises where hazardous waste, infectious waste, or solid waste is generated. (B) The director may employ and equip such individuals as are necessary to...

...g conditions with respect to a proposed publicly owned sanitary landfill or proposed modification to a publicly owned sanitary landfill as provided in division (A)(2)(d)(i) of section 3734.05 of the Revised Code ; (1) All or part of it is located one kilometer or less from the property boundary of the landfill; (2) It is not the municipal corporation, township, or county in which the landfill is located; (3) It is...

...ds and declares the following to be the public policy of this state: (A) That the off-site treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste and the off-site disposal of solid wastes, including incineration, and transfer of solid wastes are critical components of the economic structure of this state and, when properly controlled and regulated, make substantial contributions to the general welfare, health, and pros...

...oncern or, if the business concern is a publicly traded corporation, all individuals or business concerns holding more than five per cent of the equity in or debt liability of that business concern, except that when the debt liability is held by a chartered lending institution, the applicant need supply only the name and business address of the lending institution; (2) The full name, business address, and social sec...

...(A)(1) Every applicant for a permit shall file a disclosure statement, on a form developed by the attorney general, with the director of environmental protection and the attorney general at the same time the applicant files an application for the permit with the director. (2) Any individual required to be listed in the disclosure statement shall be fingerprinted for identification and investigation purposes in acco...

...ding any provision of the Revised Code, public officers and their deputies, assistants, clerks, subordinates, and employees shall render and furnish to the attorney general or his designated representatives when so requested all information and assistance in their possession or within their power. The attorney general or his authorized representatives shall provide the same degree of confidentiality for any informati...

...Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary and except as provided in division (F) of this section, no permit or license shall be issued or renewed by the director of environmental protection or a board of health: (A) Unless the director or the board of health finds that the applicant, in any prior performance record in the transportation, transfer, treatment, storage, or disposal of solid wastes, inf...

...Any permit or license may be revoked by the director of environmental protection or board of health for any of the following causes, in addition to other causes for revocation authorized by this chapter: (A) Any cause that would require disqualification pursuant to division (A), (B), (D), or (E) of section 3734.44 of the Revised Code from receiving a permit upon original application; (B) Fraud, deceit, or misrepres...

...ermit or license is necessitated by the public interest.

...The director of environmental protection and the attorney general may adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, rules necessary to implement the investigations and review of applications for permits and licenses as required under sections 3734.40 to 3734.47 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Coal combustion residuals" means fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, and flue gas desulfurization materials generated from burning coal for the purpose of generating electricity by electric utilities and independent power producers, as defined in 40 C.F.R. Part 257. (2) "Coal combustion residuals landfill" means an area of land or an excavation that receives coal combustion resid...

...dvisory council shall hold at least two meetings each year. Special meetings may be held at the request of the chairperson or a majority of the members. The director of environmental protection shall select from among the advisory council's members a chairperson. The advisory council annually shall select from among its members a vice-chairperson and a secretary to keep a record of its proceedings. Not later than two...

...a draft plan, the director shall hold a public hearing on the draft plan at each of five different locations within the state. After receiving public comments on the draft plan, the director may make such revisions to it as the director considers appropriate based on the comments received and shall submit the draft plan with any revisions to the advisory council for approval. If the advisory council approves the draf...

...The standing committees of the house of representatives and senate that are primarily responsible for considering environmental matters shall conduct an annual review of solid waste management in this state. In conducting such an annual review, the committees may consider any topics pertaining to solid waste management, and may make any recommendations, they consider necessary or appropriate.

...etermination, the director shall hold a public meeting in each of the counties named in the determination. Thereafter, the director shall issue an order in accordance with Chapter 3745. of the Revised Code to each board of county commissioners named in the determination directing the boards to enter into an agreement to establish a joint solid waste management district under Chapter 343. of the Revised Code within a ...

...istrict and shall include an additional public member only when one is required to be appointed under division (C) of section 3734.54 of the Revised Code. (D) In the case of a proposed establishment of a new joint district, joinder of a county to an existing joint district, or union of existing joint districts that only involves existing county or joint districts that are operating under solid waste management plans...

...(A) The solid waste management plan of any county or joint solid waste management district shall be prepared in a format prescribed by the director of environmental protection and shall provide for compliance with the objectives of the state solid waste management plan and rules adopted under section 3734.50 of the Revised Code. The plan shall provide for, demonstrate, and certify the availability of and access to...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the validity of any action taken prior to the date ninety days after October 29, 1993, under this chapter or Section 5 of Sub. H.B. 723 of the 119th general assembly by a solid waste management policy committee or the board of trustees of a regional solid waste management authority formed under section 343.011 of the Revised Code is not affected ...

...ction; (7) One member representing the public, to be appointed by the four members of the committee specified in divisions (B)(1) to (4) of this section. The members representing generators and the general interests of citizens shall be appointed within ninety days after the effective date of this amendment. The members representing generators and the general interests of citizens and the public member shall serve f...

... within the county or joint district a public notice that describes the draft plan, specifies the location where it is available for review, and establishes a period of thirty days for comments concerning the draft plan. The committee shall send written notice of the draft plan to adjacent county and joint districts and shall make it available for review by those districts, by the board of county commissioners...

...A court reporter to record testimony at public hearings and transcribe the record of those hearings; (5) Facility rental for holding public information sessions or public hearings; (6) Conducting a survey of industrial solid waste generators within the district and other primary data collection activities when the necessary data are not available from the district, including, without limitation, the costs of conduc...

...734.57 of the Revised Code to conduct a public hearing on the proposed amendments and obtain their approval and ratification. (F) The board of county commissioners of a county district or board of directors of a joint district may request the solid waste management policy committee of the district to prepare and adopt an amendment to the provision required to be included in the district's plan or amended plan under ...

...notice of the time and location where a public hearing on the fees will be held. Upon adopting the resolution, the committee shall deliver written notice of the adoption of the resolution; of the amount of the proposed fees; and of the date, time, and location of the public hearing to the director and to the fifty industrial, commercial, or institutional generators of solid wastes within the district that generate th...

...If no solid waste disposal facilities are located within a county or joint solid waste management district that has entered into, or proposes to enter into, an agreement with another county or joint solid waste management district under section 343.02 of the Revised Code for the joint use of solid waste facilities, the latter district may levy fees under division (B)(2) of section 3734.57 of the Revised Code on the d...

...(A) For the purpose of defraying the cost of preparing, adopting, submitting, and implementing the initial solid waste management plan and subsequent amended plans of a solid waste management district that are required to be prepared, adopted, and submitted to the director of environmental protection under sections 3734.54 and 3734.56 of the Revised Code, respectively, and for paying the costs incurred by a board of ...