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...epresentative . Upon receiving a verbal emergency notice under this division, the director or his representative shall immediately notify the community emergency coordinator of the emergency planning district in which the release occurred of the release. Upon receipt of a written follow-up emergency notice or revised written follow-up emergency notice under division (D) of this section, the director or his representa...

...te of this section, submit to the local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district in which the facility is located, the emergency response commission, and the fire department having jurisdiction over the facility, a list of any hazardous chemicals that are produced, used, or stored at the facility in an amount that equals or exceeds the threshold quantity applicable to the hazardous chemical est...

... first day of March submit to the local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district in which the facility is located, the emergency response commission, and the fire department having jurisdiction over the facility an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form containing tier I information as prescribed in divisions (A)(1) to (4) of this section. The owner or operator may instead submit an in...

... 1509.231 of the Revised Code. (B) The emergency response commission and every local emergency planning committee and fire department in this state shall establish 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 res...

... required to provide information to the emergency response commission, the local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district in which a facility owned or operated by the person is located, or the fire department having jurisdiction over the facility, under the reporting requirements in sections 3750.04, 3750.05, 3750.07, or 3750.08 of the Revised Code or the rules adopted under division (B)(1)(d) ...

... copies of information submitted to the emergency response commission or a local emergency planning committee under this chapter and rules adopted under it shall submit a written application to the information coordinator of the commission or committee in accordance with the policies and procedures in rules adopted under division (B)(2)(c) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code. Upon submission of a completed applica...

... division (E) of this section, no local emergency planning committee shall enforce any resolution, rule, or requirement for the reporting or providing of the names or amounts of extremely hazardous substances or hazardous chemicals produced, used, or stored at facilities under the jurisdiction of the committee; for the reporting or providing of information regarding locations where those substances or chemicals are s...

...re marshal, after consultation with the emergency response commission, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing standards governing the placement of placards or labels containing specified information at bulk storage areas of hazardous chemicals for the purposes of division (E) of section 3750.11 of the Revised Code. The rules shall, without limitation, do all of the followin...

...a facility required to annually file an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form under section 3750.08 of the Revised Code shall submit with the inventory form a filing fee of one hundred fifty dollars. In addition to the filing fee, the owner or operator shall submit with the inventory form the following additional fees for reporting inventories of the individual hazardous chemicals and extremely hazardous su...

...ereby created in the state treasury the emergency planning and community right-to-know fund. Moneys received by the emergency response commission under section 3750.13 of the Revised Code and civil penalties imposed under division (B) of section 3750.20 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the fund until an aggregate amount of five million dollars has been credited to it during a fiscal year. All moneys in excess...

...ereby created in the state treasury the emergency planning and community right-to-know reserve fund consisting of all moneys credited to it under section 3750.14 of the Revised Code. Fifty per cent of the moneys in the reserve fund shall be used for the grant program under division (B) of this section, and fifty per cent of the moneys shall be held in reserve for the purposes of division (C) of this section. The emer...

...A member of the emergency response commission or his designated representative who also is an officer or employee of the state or a political subdivision, a member of the local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district having territorial jurisdiction who is also an officer or employee of the state or a political subdivision, or the designated representative of the fire department having territo...

...ion 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 subdivision, so as to hinder or attempt to hinder him from carrying out his duties under this chapter and rules adopted under it. Violation of this division is not intimidation under se...

...The executive committee of the emergency response commission may issue orders requiring the owner or operator 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 sect...

...ely affected by an act or action of the emergency response commission or the executive committee of the commission may appeal to the environmental review appeals commission seeking an order vacating or modifying the act or action or requiring the emergency response commission or executive committee to perform an act or action. The person appealing to the environmental review appeals commission shall be known as the a...

...quest of the executive committee of the emergency response commission, the local emergency planning committee, or the fire department having jurisdiction where the violation has occurred or is occurring, shall prosecute to termination or bring an action for injunction against any person who has violated or is violating any section of this chapter or rules adopted or orders issued under it. The court of common pleas i...

...A member of the emergency response commission, officer or employee of the environmental protection agency, member or employee of a local emergency planning committee, officer or employee of a fire department, health professional, physician, nurse, or other person who receives information classified as a trade secret pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(2)(d) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code, information...

...to any of the following: (a) The local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district in which the facility or business is located; (b) The fire department with jurisdiction over the facility or business; (c) The sheriff of the county in which the facility or business is located; (d) The chief of police of any municipal corporation with jurisdiction over the facility or business; (e) Any state a...

...(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...

...e following: (A) Oil or gas production operations regulated under Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it; (B) Equipment, petroleum, or piping owned or operated by a public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code or other electric light company as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code or by a subsidiary of such a public utility or electric light company; (C) Any tank...

...(A) The director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, and subsequently may amend or rescind, rules doing all of the following: (1) Establishing guidelines for the demonstrations required to be made in an application for a waiver under division (A) of section 3752.10 of the Revised Code; (2) Prescribing methods to be used in securing buildings, structures, an...

...y days after the cessation of regulated operations at a facility for which a notice and certification are required to be submitted under sections 3752.04 and 3752.06 of the Revised Code, the owner or operator of the facility shall secure against unauthorized entry each building or structure at the facility where regulated operations were conducted and that contains or is contaminated with regulated substances and eac...

...(A) Promptly after receiving a certification under section 3752.06 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection or an authorized representative of the director shall conduct an inspection of the facility named in the certification to determine whether the requirements of that section, applicable rules adopted under section 3752.03 of the Revised Code, and any orders issued under section 3752.16 of th...

... temporarily discontinues all regulated operations at the facility for a period of not less than thirty days nor more than three hundred sixty-five consecutive days, within forty-five days after discontinuing those operations, shall make a written certification to the director of environmental protection that indicates the date on which those operations were discontinued and that states that the discontinuation will ...

... temporarily discontinues all regulated operations at the facility for a period exceeding three hundred sixty-five days may request a waiver from the requirements of sections 3752.05 to 3752.07 of the Revised Code. The owner or operator shall submit to the director of environmental protection the application for a waiver, in a form prescribed by the director, within forty-five days after the discontinuation of all re...