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...ements for reporting or providing the names and amounts of extremely hazardous substances or hazardous chemicals produced, used, or stored at facilities within its emergency planning district; for the reporting or providing of information regarding locations where those substances or chemicals are stored at those facilities; or for the reporting of releases of extremely hazardous substances, hazardous substances, or ...

...ffected by such a release; (8) A composite statement of specialized equipment, facilities, personnel, and emergency response organizations available within the district to respond to releases of extremely hazardous substances; (9) The development of evacuation plans including, but not limited to, provisions for a precautionary evacuation and for alternative traffic routes in the event of a release of an extremely...

...extremely hazardous substance first becomes present at a facility on or after the effective date of this section in an amount that exceeds the threshold planning quantity established for the substance in rules adopted under division (B)(1)(a) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code, or if, after rules have been adopted under division (C)(5) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code, an extremely hazardous substance becom...

...n exposure to persons solely within the site or sites on which the facility is located. (F) No person shall fail to provide any verbal or written release notification or to update a written release notification required by this section and by rules adopted under division (B)(1)(f) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code.

...prepare or have available a material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1590, 29 U.S.C.A. 651, as amended, and regulations adopted under it shall, within thirty days after the effective date of this section, submit to the local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district in which the facility is located, the emergency respons...

...prepare or have available a material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1590, 29 U.S.C.A. 651, as amended, and regulations adopted under it, or who is required to submit a list under division (A), (D), or (E), or is authorized to submit material safety data sheets instead of that list under division (E), of section 3750.07 of the Revised Code an...

... a means by which to access, view, and retrieve information from the electronic database maintained by the division of oil and gas resources management in the department of natural resources in accordance with section 1509.231 of the Revised Code. With respect to facilities regulated under Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code, the database shall be the means of providing and receiving the information described in divisi...

...the information constitutes a trade secret if either of the following conditions is met: (1)(a) At the time of submitting the information sought to be classified as a trade secret, the owner or operator of the facility submits a claim for protection of that information as a trade secret pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(2)(d) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code and submits a copy of the required report...

...Revised Code. Upon submission of a completed application, the information coordinator shall provide the applicant access to or copies of the information requested, or shall perform the requested computer search and provide the applicant with the information obtained from it, in accordance with those policies and procedures, subject to the restrictions under division (B)(5) of this section on the release of informatio...

...ommittee shall mail by certified mail, return receipt requested, notice of the application and a summary of the reporting requirement to the owner or operator of each facility within the emergency planning district that the committee determines would be subject to the reporting requirement. If the commission finds that the resolution, rule, or requirement meets the criteria for issuance of a variance established in t...

...operator of a facility may, at his discretion, utilize the system of placarding or labeling established by the national fire protection association; (B) Provide that if more than one hazardous chemical is present at a bulk storage area, a placard or label concerning only the chemical that is the most hazardous as determined under this chapter and rules adopted under it need be placed at the area; (C) Stipulate that...

...(c) The facility is located on the same site as, or on a site adjacent to, the well from which the crude oil, liquid hydrocarbons, or other fluids are produced or obtained. (d) The facility is used for the storage of the crude oil, liquid hydrocarbons, or other fluids prior to their transportation off the premises of the facility for sale, use, or disposal. An owner or operator who submits information for more than...

...for the reporting or providing of the names and amounts of extremely hazardous substances or hazardous chemicals produced, used, or stored at facilities in the municipal corporation that was in effect on the effective date of this section, the commission shall first determine the amount of the grant for which the fire department would otherwise be eligible under this section and shall subtract from that amount the to...

...f the Revised Code, the director of budget and management, upon the certification of the commission, may transfer up to fifty per cent of the moneys in the reserve fund to that fund. The director shall transfer only such amounts of the reserve fund to the fund as are necessary to ensure that all budgetary requirements of the fund are met, provided that expenditures from the fund shall not exceed five million dollars ...

...es, and examine or copy any records to determine compliance with this chapter and rules adopted and orders issued under it. The commission, committee, or fire department, or a designated representative of any of them, may apply for and any judge of a court of record may issue an administrative inspection warrant under division (F) of section 2933.21 of the Revised Code, or other appropriate search warrant, necessary ...

...hall influence, intimidate, harass, or retaliate by any means or method against the director of environmental protection or an officer or employee of the environmental protection agency, a member or employee of the emergency response commission or a local emergency planning committee, an officer or employee of a fire department, an emergency responder, or an officer or employee of this state or a political subdivisio...

...perator of a facility or other responsible person at a facility to abate a violation of any section of this chapter or a rule adopted under it, and orders requiring a local emergency planning committee or fire department to comply with this chapter or rules adopted under it. Enforcement orders issued under this section and other orders issued by the commission under this chapter shall be issued in accordance with pr...

...e form of a notice of appeal and shall set forth the action complained of and the grounds upon which the appeal is based. The appeal shall be filed with the environmental review appeals commission within thirty days after notice of the act or action. Notice of the filing of the appeal shall be filed with the emergency response commission or executive committee within three days after the appeal is filed with the envi...

... emergency response commission shall be credited to the emergency planning and community right-to-know fund created in section 3750.14 of the Revised Code. All civil penalties received under those divisions pursuant to actions brought upon the written request of a local emergency planning committee or fire department shall be credited to the special emergency planning fund created in section 3750.03 of the Revised Co...

...ssified as a trade secret pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(2)(d) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code, information classified as a trade secret pursuant to division (B)(14) of that section, or information identified as confidential business information by rules adopted under division (B)(1)(h) of that section and who violates division (G) of section 3750.09 of the Revised Code or otherwise discloses inf...

...th any other public or private office unless required to do so by federal or state law. (B)(1) Any vulnerability assessment or other security-sensitive information a public office receives pursuant to division (A) of this section is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code and that assessment or information is not subject to the mandatory disclosure requirements of section 149.43 of the Revised C...

...(A) Whoever recklessly violates section 3750.06 of the Revised Code or an order issued under section 3750.18 of the Revised Code to enforce that section is guilty of a felony and shall be fined at least ten thousand but not more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisoned for at least two but not more than four years, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense. Upon a second or subsequent conviction for...

..." means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or discharging into the environment of any toxic chemical including, without limitation, the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles that contained a toxic chemical. (H) "Toxic chemical" means a chemical listed in rules adopted by the administrator of the Un...

...ive of the governor pursuant to EPCRA, petition the administrator to, by regulation, add a chemical to or delete a chemical from the list of toxic chemicals subject to the toxic chemical release reporting requirements of that act if, in the director's judgment, the chemical meets the criteria required by that act.

... and submit to the administrator a completed toxic chemical release form for each toxic chemical that was so manufactured, processed, or otherwise used at the facility during the preceding calendar year. The electronic submission of the form to the administrator constitutes simultaneous submission of the form to the director of environmental protection for purposes of EPCRA. (2) Division (A)(1) of this section appli...