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...ributions. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to support the investigation and remediation of contaminated property and implementation of the hazardous waste provisions of Chapter 3734. of the Revised Code.

...stered by the environmental protection agency. (2) "Regulated entity" means an entity that is regulated under an environmental law. (B)(1) The director of environmental protection may establish within the agency a program for providing compliance and pollution prevention assistance to regulated entities. Services provided under the program may include all of the following: (a) Establishment of a statewide tol...

...ish within environmental protection the agency a division to administer the agency's financial, technical, and compliance programs to assist communities, businesses, and other regulated entities. The division shall administer all of the following: (A) State revolving wastewater and drinking water loan programs under sections 6109.22 and 6111.036 of the Revised Code; (B) Agency grant programs, including recycling an...

...ication on the environmental protection agency's official web site. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code or Administrative Code requiring the director of environmental protection to deliver a document or notice by certified mail, the director may instead deliver the document or notice by any method capable of documenting the intended recipient's receipt of the document or notice.

...tent help. The environmental protection agency shall furnish such clerical and stenographic services to the commission as the commission requests and is reasonably available. Two members constitute a quorum, and no action of the commission shall be valid unless it has the concurrence of at least two members. The commission shall keep a record of its proceedings. Biennially one member shall be elected as chairperson...

...(A) The environmental review appeals commission shall adopt or amend, as appropriate, regulations governing procedure to be followed for hearings before it, including regulations governing all of the following: (1) Expedited hearings; (2) Expedited decisions; (3) Stays. (B) No regulation adopted by the commission shall be effective until the tenth day after it has been adopted by the filing of a certified copy th...

...itical subdivision, instrumentality, or agency of a state, whether or not the individual or legal entity is an applicant for or holder of a license, permit, or variance from the environmental protection agency, and includes any department, agency, or instrumentality of the federal government that is an applicant for or holder of a license, permit, or variance from the environmental protection agency. As used in thi...

...(A) In hearing the appeal, if an adjudication hearing was conducted by the director of environmental protection in accordance with sections 119.09 and 119.10 of the Revised Code or conducted by a board of health, the environmental review appeals commission is confined to the record as certified to it by the director or the board of health, as applicable. The commission may grant a request for the admission of a...

...state or a political subdivision, or an agency of either, or any officer of them acting in a representative capacity, shall provide security for costs satisfactory to the court. Upon demand by a party, the commission shall furnish at the cost of the party requesting the record a copy of the record. If the complete record is not filed within the time provided for in this section, any party may apply to the court to ha...

... proposed action, from an officer of an agency of the state or of a political subdivision acting in a representative capacity or any person who would be aggrieved or adversely affected by the issuance or renewal of a permit, license, or variance, the director shall conduct an adjudication hearing on the proposed action in accordance with sections 119.09 and 119.10 of the Revised Code, at which hearing the persons who...

...(A) An officer of an agency of the state or of a political subdivision, acting in the officer's representative capacity, or any person who is or will be aggrieved or adversely affected by a violation that has occurred, is occurring, or will occur may file a complaint, in writing and verified by the affidavit of the complainant, the complainant's agent, or attorney, with the director of environmental protection, in ac...

... United States environmental protection agency, and the attorney general of Ohio, in an effort to secure prompt compliance with all laws, regulations, and standards for the prevention, abatement, and control of air and water pollution and disposal of solid wastes.

...y a fee to the environmental protection agency for each such issuance and each application for an issuance as provided by this section. No fee shall be charged for any issuance for which no application has been submitted to the director. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2) of this section, beginning July 1, 1994, each person who owns or operates an air contaminant source and who is required to appl...

...curred by the environmental protection agency designated by the director to be costs of the Title V permit program; (C) A review and analysis of all expenditures from the Title V clean air fund for costs not designated by the director as costs of the Title V permit program; (D) A review and analysis of the adequacy of the fees assessed under division (B) of section 3745.11 for meeting the costs of the Title V...

...er this section shall not apply to any agency or department of the state or to any county, township, or municipal corporation in this state.

... this section do not apply to any state agency as defined in section 119.01 of the Revised Code or to the United States army corps of engineers. (E) The fees established under this section do not apply to projects that are authorized by the environmental protection agency's general certifications of nationwide permits or general permits issued by the United States army corps of engineers. As used in this division, ...

...ncurred by the environmental protection agency in investigating, mitigating, minimizing, removing, or abating any unauthorized spill, release, or discharge of material into or upon the environment that requires emergency action to protect the public health or safety or the environment; (2) Conducting remedial actions under section 3752.13 of the Revised Code. (B) Any person responsible for causing or allowing the u...

...wnship, countywide emergency management agency established under section 5502.26 of the Revised Code, regional authority for emergency management established under section 5502.27 of the Revised Code, or emergency management program established by a political subdivision under section 5502.271 of the Revised Code, having territorial jurisdiction, or responsibility for emergency management activities in the loca...

...gulated by the environmental protection agency; providing educational seminars for persons regulated by the environmental protection agency, including, without limitation, small businesses, regarding the regulatory requirements of the agency and the means of achieving and maintaining compliance with them; and providing one or more scholarships in environmental sciences or environmental engineering for students enroll...

...or used by the environmental protection agency for regulatory purposes and not adopted in accordance with rules adoption procedures consistent with this chapter and Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. "Policy" includes documents, manuals, advisories, protocols, forms, and other written or electronic materials provided to the public, a regulated party, or agency personnel regarding the substance, requirements, procedure...

...e penalties of any kind brought by any agency or department of the state or by any other governmental authority charged with enforcing environmental laws shall be commenced within five years of the time when the agency, department, or governmental authority actually knew or was informed of the occurrence, omission, or facts on which the cause of action is based. (2) If an agency, department, or governmental au...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the Volkswagen clean air act settlement fund consisting of money received by the state from the Volkswagen clean air act settlement. It is the intent of the general assembly to appropriate into the fund the money received by the state from that settlement.

... to notify the environmental protection agency if any of the following occurs: (a) Cyanotoxins are detected in finished drinking water. (b) Cyanobacteria are detected in their source water. (c) Application of an algaecide is anticipated to the source water. (D) As used in this section, "western basin" has the same meaning as in section 905.326 of the Revised Code.

...by the head officer of the governmental agency, or division or office thereof, with jurisdiction over the activities being audited based on a showing of reasonable grounds. An audit shall not be considered to be initiated until the owner or operator or the owner's or operator's employee or independent contractor actively has begun the self-evaluation of environmental compliance. (B) "Activity" means any process, pro...

...herwise made available to a government agency. (5) The information is obtained from a source other than an environmental audit report, including, without limitation, observation, sampling, monitoring, a communication, a record, or a report that is not part of the audit on which the audit report is based. (6) The information is collected, developed, made, or maintained in bad faith or for a fraudulent purpose....