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...e authority or obligation of any government agency pursuant to section 149.43 of the Revised Code; (B) Any employee protection rights under federal or state laws.

...ontrols, is controlled by, or is under common control with such person. For the purposes of section 3750.06 of the Revised Code, the term also includes motor vehicles, rolling stock, and aircraft. (E) "Fire department" means a fire department of a municipal corporation or township, a township fire district, a joint township fire district, a private fire company or volunteer fire company that has entered into an agre...

...occurs first. The commission may at any time by a vote of two-thirds of all the members remove any appointed member of the commission for misfeasance, nonfeasance, or malfeasance. Members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for the reasonable expenses incurred by them in the discharge of their duties as members of the commission. The commission shall meet at least annually an...

...rds vote of all its members, may at any time remove a member for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance or, at the request of the committee, the commission may remove a member of the committee for any of those reasons. The members of the committee for a joint interstate district shall be appointed, shall serve for such terms, and are subject to removal from the committee in the manner provided in the agreement est...

...procedures for reliable, effective, and timely notification and communication among emergency responders within the district and to the public in the event of a release of an extremely hazardous substance from a facility identified under division (A)(1) of this section; (7) The development of methods for determining the occurrence of a release of an extremely hazardous substance from each facility identified under ...

...ing approval of the request during that time. The commission shall not issue any such order unless at least sixty per cent of the voting members of the commission vote to approve the request and issuance of the order. Designations under this division shall be made on the basis of individual facilities rather than on a categorical basis. (B) Within thirty days after the committee of a district is appointed under sect...

...elease, unless notification within that time is impracticable under the circumstances. To the extent known at the time notice is given and that response to the release will not be delayed, the notice shall include all of the following information: (1) The location of the release; (2) The chemical name or identity of any substance involved in the release and whether the substance is an extremely hazardous substance;...

...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 established by rules ad...

...prescribed in this division, until such time as the commission authorizes the owner or operator to resume the annual submission of an inventory form containing tier I information. An owner or operator who has been so required to annually submit an inventory form containing tier II information may, at any time, request the commission to authorize the owner or operator to resume annual submission of an inventory form c...

...ection 3750.06 of the Revised Code, by complying with the requirements established in section 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 depa...

...owing 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 that indicates that such a claim has been filed and contains th...

...or exceeding ten thousand pounds at any time during the preceding calendar year, the commission or committee shall request the owner or operator of the facility to submit an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form containing tier II information regarding the hazardous chemical. The owner or operator of the facility shall submit the requested inventory form to the commission or committee within thirty days aft...

...s 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 stored at those facil...

...nsultation 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 following: (A) Establish st...

...applies. The total fees required to accompany any inventory form shall not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars. (2) An owner or operator of a facility who fails to submit such an inventory form within thirty days after the applicable filing date prescribed in section 3750.08 of the Revised Code shall submit with the inventory form a late filing fee in the amount of ten per cent per year of the total fees due under d...

...cal subdivision to the committee at any time prior to the committee's receipt of its first grant under this section for performance of the functions of a local emergency planning committee. The committee may make grants from the moneys it receives under this section during those fiscal years to reimburse any portion of the contributions made by a political subdivision to the committee to the extent that the committee...

...committee to the commission at the same time. Each application from a committee shall demonstrate that expenditures from applicable local revenues for the purpose of preparedness for emergency response to those releases and for administration of the district's emergency response program did not decline during the immediately preceding three years. No grant under this division shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars...

... an inspection, may enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property, real or personal, to inspect or investigate, obtain samples, 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 ...

...te or misleading information resulted from a good faith error that occurred notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures that were adopted by the owner or operator to avoid such an error. (D) No person shall 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 ...

...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...

...The environmental review appeals commission created in section 3745.02 of the Revised Code has exclusive original jurisdiction over any matter that may be brought before it under Chapter 3745. of the Revised Code or this chapter. For purposes of this section, the terms "any person," "act," and "action" have the same meanings as in section 3745.04 of the Revised Code. Any person who has been aggrieved or adversely af...

...n the written request 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 o...

...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...

...ing: (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 agency involved in th...

... 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 such an offense, the offender shall be fined at least twenty-five thousand but not more tha...