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...to debt obligations will be met; (3) Industrial water pollution control facilities discharging into its sewerage systems, treatment works, and disposal systems; (4) The establishment, operation, administration, and enforcement of its publicly owned treatment works pretreatment program, including inspection, monitoring, and reporting programs and activities. (B) The rules adopted by the legislative authority or gov...

... under the general permit, the director fails to act on the notice of intent, the discharge that is the subject of the notice of intent is deemed to be permitted and covered by the general permit related to coal mining and reclamation operations. Nothing in this section alters or limits the authority of the director to enforce the terms and conditions of the general permit or limits the director's authority to ...

...environmental assessment, any necessary supplemental studies, and an enforceable mitigation plan. The director may establish environmental impact mitigation terms or conditions for the implementation of an assistance proposal, including, without limitation, the installation or modification of a disposal system, in the director's approval of the plans for the installation or modification as authorized by section 6111....

...nt source pollution control program, which activities include research, planning, water quality assessments, demonstration programs, enforcement, technical assistance, education, and training to protect water quality from nonpoint sources of pollution.

...sary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Those programs shall include at least the development of water quality standards; the development of wasteload allocations; the establishment of water quality-based effluent limits; the monitoring and analysis of chemical, physical, and biological surface water quality; the issuance, modification, and renewal of NPDES permits and permits to install; the ensurance ...

...on shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code requiring the posting of notice regarding the land application of sludge that is classified as class B sludge under 40 C.F.R. 503.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the water quality protection fund. The fund shall consist of federal grants, including grants made pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and contributions made to the environmental protection agency for water quality protection and restoration. The director of environmental protection shall use money in the fund for water quality protection and restor...

...25 of the Revised Code; (3) Funds for supplemental environmental projects for water quality improvements required by orders of the director of environmental protection, settlement agreements, consent decrees, or court orders; (4) Mitigation fees for impacts to waters of the state for mitigation not required by the United States environmental protection agency or the United States army corps of engineers. (B)...

...tion of any waters of the state. (2) Such an action prohibited under division (A)(1) of this section is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. Divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply if the person causing pollution or placing or causing to be placed wastes in a location in which they cause pollution of any waters of the state holds a valid, unexpired permit, or renewal of a permit, governing the cau...

...uch waters for public water supplies, industrial and agricultural needs, propagation of fish, aquatic life, and wildlife, and recreational purposes. Such standards may be amended from time to time as determined by the director. Prior to establishing, amending, or repealing standards of water quality the director shall, after due notice, conduct public hearings thereon. Notice of hearings shall specify the waters to w...

...In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall adopt and enforce, and may modify and rescind, rules setting forth and requiring compliance with national effluent limitations, national standards of performance for new sources, national toxic and pretreatment effluent standards, and national sludge use and disposal standards, as necessary in order to ensure complianc...

...ce. (6) A determination accompanied by supporting documentation describing all areas around the well where formation pressures are predicted by the applicant to be increased due to the operation of the well and an evaluation of whether any resulting potential exists for contamination of any underground source of drinking water or migration of substances injected into the well outside of the anticipated injection zon...

... in the application. If the application fails to identify or correctly delineate an underground source of drinking water, the chief shall provide written notice of that fact to the director. The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall review the application as follows: If the application concerns the drilling or conversion of a well or the injection into a well that is not or is not to be locate...

...) of this section. (E) No person shall fail to comply with this section. (F) As used in this section: (1) "Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, emitting, or placing of any industrial waste or other wastes into or on any land or ground or surface water or into the air, except if the disposition constitutes storage or treatment. (2) "Recycling" means to use, reuse, or recla...

...arry out this section. No person shall fail to comply with this division. (B) All moneys received by the director under division (A) of this section shall be credited to the underground injection control fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. Beginning July 1, 1992, and annually thereafter, the director shall request the office of budget and management to, and the office shall, transfer fifteen per ce...

...ring this section. (D) No person shall fail to comply with this section or a rule adopted under it.

...the costs of any necessary equipment or supplies provided in connection with the assistance provided to the director.

...Section 6111.047 and rules adopted under division (B)(5) of section 6111.043 of the Revised Code do not apply to any nonhazardous class I injection well that disposes of naturally occurring formation fluids extracted during salt mining processes into an injection zone consisting of the Oriskany sandstone at depths of not more than one thousand five hundred feet.

... discharges, including discharges by "industrial users" into a publicly owned "treatment works" as those terms are defined in sections 212 and 502 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and may apply to the court of common pleas having jurisdiction for a warrant permitting the entrance and inspection. Any authorized representative of the director at reasonable times may examine any records or memoranda pertaini...

...acing tiles, roofing tiles, clay pipes, chimney pipes, flue liners, and drainage tiles and pipes. (B) No person shall use, manage, or dispose of structural products in a manner that results in any of the following: (1) A nuisance; (2) An exceedance of a water quality standard adopted under section 6111.041 of the Revised Code; (3) An exceedance of a primary or secondary maximum contaminant level established in ru...

... (B) For purposes of this chapter, " industrial waste" and "other wastes" do not include blast furnace slag or steel slag regardless of whether it is placed on the ground, placed below grade, or used in products that come into contact with the ground or are placed below grade. (C) No person shall place or manage blast furnace slag or steel slag in a manner that results in any of the following: (1) An exceedanc...

...erned by sections 119.01 to 119.13, and Chapter 3745. of the Revised Code. (B) The director shall not refuse to issue a permit, nor modify or revoke a permit already issued, unless the applicant or permit holder has been afforded an opportunity for a hearing prior to the refusal to issue the permit or prior to the modification or revocation of the permit. (C) Whenever the director officially determines that an emer...

...s pertaining to discharges of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes or to sludge management required as a condition of a permit or knowingly render inaccurate any monitoring device or other method required to be maintained by the director.

...ts in equity or under the common law to suppress nuisances or to abate pollution.

...l administration fund shall be used to supplement other moneys available for the administration and enforcement of this chapter and the rules adopted and terms and conditions of orders and permits issued under it, including, without limitation, the issuance of permits under it, and shall not be used to satisfy any state matching fund requirements for the receipt of any federal grant funds. The director may expe...