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...As used in this chapter: (A) "Public water supply facilities," "water supply facilities," "water supply improvement," or "improvement" means, without limiting the generality of those terms, water wells and well fields, springs, lakes, rivers, streams, or other sources of water supply, intakes, pumping stations and equipment, treatment, filtration, or purification plants, force and distribution lines or main...

...lication, to the clerk, or the official discharging the duties of a clerk, of any municipal corporation any part of which lies within the assessment district and shall state whether or not any property belonging to the municipal corporation is to be assessed and, if so, shall identify that property. At the hearing, or at any adjournment of the hearing, of which no further published or mailed notice need be give...

...After the issuance and sale of bonds or certificates of indebtedness, as provided in sections 6103.02 to 6103.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall enter into a written contract in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The contract shall be between the board and the bidder, and the board shall pay the contract price in cash. Such paymen...

...On or before the second Monday in September, annually, the board of county commissioners shall certify to the county auditor all of the assessments provided for in sections 6103.06 to 6103.15 of the Revised Code, including all assessments deferred pursuant to section 6103.051 of the Revised Code, stating the amounts and time of payment thereof, and in accordance therewith the auditor shall record the same in a book t...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it. (B) The director shall adopt, amend, and rescind such rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as may be necessary or desirable to do both of the following: (1) Govern public water systems in order to protect the public health; (2) Govern public water systems to protect the public ...

...(A)(1) Upon petition by the director of environmental protection, a court of common pleas may appoint a receiver to take possession of and operate a public water system that serves fewer than five hundred service connections only when conditions existing at the public water system present a threat to public health or welfare. However, division (A)(1) of this section does not apply to a system owned and operated by ...

...In the discharge of his duties under sections 6111.043 to 6111.045 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection may call to his assistance temporarily employees of any state department, agency, authority, or institution, or any college or university financed wholly or partly by the state. The employees shall not receive any additional compensation above that which they receive from the departments, a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Blast furnace slag" means a nonmetallic material that is an intended output or intended result of the melting of iron ore or iron pellets together with coke and a flux in a blast furnace, that is sold and distributed in the stream of commerce as a product. (2) "Steel slag" means an intended output or intended result of the use of an electric arc furnace or basic oxygen furnace to...

...(A) No person shall violate or fail to perform any duty imposed by sections 6111.01 to 6111.08 o r division (B) of section 6111.33 of the Revised Code or violate any order, rule, or term or condition of a permit issued or adopted by the director of environmental protection pursuant to those sections. Each day of violation is a separate offense. (B) The attorney general, upon the written request of the director, shal...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall establish an antidegradation policy applicable to surface waters of the state pursuant to applicable federal laws and regulations. The purpose of the policy shall be to maintain levels of water quality that are currently better than prescribed by applicable standards except in situations when a need to allow a lower level of water quality is demonstrated based on tec...

...(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...

...Sections 6111.31 to 6111.315 of the Revised Code do not apply to, and the director of environmental protection shall not impose any additional requirements upon, an activity associated with an ephemeral feature that is a water of the state if the activity is either of the following: (A) A restoration or enhancement project that will result in a net improvement of water quality. Such projects may include a project u...

...(A) As used in sections 6111.561 to 6111.654 of the Revised Code: (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 ...

...(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...

...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 ...

...If a sanitary district is established for purposes other than the provision of a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use, or for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, after the establishment of the district and the organization of the board of directors of the district no public corporation or person shall install within the district any outlet for discharge of sewage or other liquid waste o...

...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...

...At the time of making its order organizing a sanitary district or at any suitable time thereafter, the court shall appoint three appraisers to constitute the board of appraisers of the sanitary district, who shall in every case where appraisers are appointed under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code, be recommended by the board of directors of the sanitary district. The board of appraisers shall appraise ...

...At any time after the formation of a county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may enter into a contract, on terms and for the period of time that are mutually agreed on, with any other public agency under which the public agency will conduct projects and activities for the purpose of complying with the requirements of phase II of the storm water program of the national pollutant discharge elimination ...

...ation, to the clerk, or to the official discharging the duties of a clerk, of any municipal corporation any part of which lies within the assessment district and shall state whether or not any property belonging to the municipal corporation is to be assessed and, if so, shall identify that property. At the hearing, or at any adjournment of the hearing, of which no further published or mailed notice need be give...

...After the issuance and sale of bonds or certificates of indebtedness, as provided in sections 6117.01 to 6117.45, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall enter into a written contract in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The contract shall be between the board and the bidder, and the board shall pay the contract price in cash. Such payment may ...

...On or before the second Monday in September, annually, the board of county commissioners shall certify all of the assessments provided for in section 6117.32 of the Revised Code to the county auditor, including all assessments deferred pursuant to section 6117.061 of the Revised Code, stating the amount and the time of payment thereof, and in accordance therewith the auditor shall record the same in a book to be know...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Court of common pleas" or "court" means, unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a regional water and sewer district is filed. (B) "Political subdivision" includes departments, divisions, authorities, or other units of state governments, watershed districts, soil and water conservatio...

...Upon the declaration of the court of common pleas organizing the regional water and sewer district pursuant to section 6119.04 of the Revised Code and upon the qualifying of its board of trustees and the election of a president and a secretary, said district shall exercise in its own name all the rights, powers, and duties vested in it by Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, and, subject to such reservations, limitatio...

...In order to accomplish the purposes of a regional water and sewer district, to protect its projects, to secure the best results from the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof, and to prevent damage by the misuse of any such projects or by the pollution or misuse of the waters of the state within the district or without the district and served or affected by a project or projects of the district, the board ...