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...ecessary to attain the water quality to support such uses, and to the equities involved therein. The director may review water management plans and studies made by, for, or required by law to be submitted to, governmental agencies, and render staff planning assistance to such agencies. The director may develop, implement, and coordinate a comprehensive plan for water management research by state universities and ot...

...es; (E) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells that are determined to be necessary by the director of environmental protection to prevent the contamination of the ground waters in the state, except that the rules shall not apply to wells for the provision of water for human consumption unless they are used, or are for use, by...

...r the violation, constitutes a separate offense. (B) Sections 6111.45 and 6111.46 of the Revised Code and division (A) of this section do not apply to any of the following: (1) Sewerage or treatment works for sewage installed or to be installed for the use of a private residence or dwelling; (2) Sewerage systems, treatment works, or disposal systems for storm water from an animal feeding facility or manure, as "an...

...8.01 of the Revised Code, concerning which the board of health of a city or general health district has notified the director of health and the director of environmental protection under section 3718.021 of the Revised Code that the board has chosen to regulate the system are exempt from the administrative and permitting requirements established in this chapter and rules adopted under it and the fees establishe...

...f the violation, constitutes a separate offense.

...on shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code specifying construction activities that do not, by themselves, constitute installing works for the treatment or disposal of sewage or other waste for which approval of plans is required under section 6111.44 or 6111.45 of the Revised Code. The activities shall include the grading and clearing of land, on-site storage of portable parts and equipm...

...osal of sewage and industrial wastes. Such general supervision shall apply to all features of construction, operation, and maintenance of the works or means that do or may affect the proper treatment and disposal of sewage and industrial wastes. (B)(1) The agency shall investigate the works or means employed in the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage and industrial wastes whenever considered necessary or...

...edible data" means scientifically valid chemical, physical, or biological water quality monitoring data concerning surface waters, including qualitative scoring of physical habitat characteristics and the sampling of fish, macroinvertebrates, and water quality, that have been collected by or submitted to the director of environmental protection and that comply with the requirements established in rules adopted under ...

...nd no more stringent than necessary to support, the purposes for which the data will be used. In adopting rules under this section, the director shall consider the cost of data collection methods and procedures to persons or entities collecting data, and the burden of compliance with those methods and procedures for those persons or entities, while ensuring the degree of accuracy commensurate with the purpose ...

...rmining whether a water of the state is supporting its designated use or other classification; (E) Establishing a total maximum daily load for a water of the state.

...o have been approved. (D) A person who chooses to submit data for consideration as credible data shall document the person's status as a qualified data collector, demonstrate compliance with a generic plan or a site-specific plan, certify to the best knowledge and belief of the qualified data collector that the credible data were collected in accordance with the procedures required by the plan developed or approved ...

...Each state agency in possession of surface water quality data shall submit the data to the environmental protection agency in a format designated by the director of environmental protection. Each such agency shall submit the data to the director at the same time that the agency compiles or summarizes the data for its own use, but at a minimum shall submit the data to the director annually. If the director determines ...

... persons. The data shall be stored in such a manner that they are easily retrieved and analyzed and are available for sharing with other agencies and all other interested persons.

...al criteria cannot be established or to supplement numerical criteria.

...(1) "NPDES" means national pollutant discharge elimination system. (2) "TMDL" means total maximum daily load. (B) The director of environmental protection shall develop and establish a TMDL for waters of the state where required under section 1313(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The director shall establish a TMDL only for pollutants that the administrator of the United States environmental protectio...

... for input from potentially affected dischargers, county soil and water conservation districts, and other stakeholders during the development of a TMDL after March 24, 2015, at each of the following stages of development of a TMDL and plans and actions necessary for TMDL implementation: (a) The project assessment study plan, including portions of the plan that seek to determine the causes and sources of impairments ...

...l draft TMDL relates, all significant industrial users listed in the permit holders' annual report, and any other stakeholder that has provided input in accordance with section 6111.562 of the Revised Code. (2) A time period for comment of not less than sixty days on the official draft TMDL; (3) An opportunity for a public hearing regarding the official draft TMDL if there is significant public interest, as determi...

... voluntary dismissal, all significant industrial users listed in those NPDES permit holders' annual pretreatment program reports who are known to discharge a significant amount of a pollutant limited by the TMDL into the publicly owned treatment works. (C)(1) In the case of an NPDES permit issued in draft or final form to a publicly owned treatment works that contains TMDL-based effluent limits, pretreatment limits ...

...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...

...th. 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) or (C) of section 6111.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense. (C) Whoever violates section 6111.46 o...

...llutes 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 from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such sewage as is present, which pollutes the waters of the state. (C) "Other wastes" means garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust shavings, bark, and...

... section shall have been made under the supervision of and certified by a registered engineer or surveyor.

...d installation of facilities under this chapter shall be made in the manner and form prescribed by the director of environmental protection and shall be accompanied by plans, specifications, and other data that the director may require relative to the facilities for which approval of plans is requested. Thereafter, the director shall act upon the application in accordance with law and the rules adopted pursuant there...

...protection shall be performed under the supervision of a registered engineer, in a manner acceptable to the director. Such registered engineer shall be employed by the applicant at his own expense.

...county commissioners may acquire, by purchase, sewerage systems and disposal systems serving sewer districts within its county, constructed by any person under the authority granted by sections 6112.02 and 6112.03 of the Revised Code. If the board and owners thereof are unable to agree upon its purchase and sale, or the amount of compensation therefor, the board may appropriate the sewerage system and disposal system...