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...There is hereby created in the state treasury the waste management fund. The fund shall consist of money credited to it under this chapter and Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to pay the costs of administering and enforcing this chapter and Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those chapters, including ground water evaluations rela...

...es adopted under it. (B) Within thirty days after the issuance of a license, the board of health shall certify to the director of environmental protection that the solid waste facility or infectious waste treatment facility has been inspected and is in substantial compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. Each board of health shall provide the director with such other information as he may require...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall survey annually each health district licensing solid waste facilities and infectious waste treatment facilities as provided by section 3734.05 or 3734.81 of the Revised Code to determine whether there is substantial compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it and, upon determining that there is substantial compliance, shall place the health district upon ...

...The board of health of a health district in which a solid waste facility or an infectious waste treatment facility is located, or the director of environmental protection, may suspend, revoke, or deny a license for the facility for violation of any section of this chapter or any rule adopted under it. The director may suspend, revoke, or deny a permit to operate any hazardous waste facility for violation of any secti...

...The attorney general or the prosecuting attorney of the county, city director of law, or village solicitor where a violation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, upon request of the respective board of health of the health district, the legislative authority of a political subdivision in which a violation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, or the director of environmental protection, shall criminally pros...

...menced no sooner than one hundred fifty days after the aggrieved or adversely affected person has given notice of the alleged violation to the director of environmental protection, the attorney general, and the alleged violator. Notice required under this division shall be delivered by certified mail and shall describe in detail the alleged violation for which the action may be commenced. (C)(1) No action may be co...

...(A) No person shall violate any section of this chapter, any rule adopted under it, or any order issued under section 3734.13 of the Revised Code. (B) No person who holds a permit or license issued under this chapter shall violate any of the terms and conditions of the permit or license. (C) No person shall operate a solid waste facility or portion of such a facility within the boundaries of a state park establishe...

...(A) Promptly after issuing a periodic assessment under division (B) of section 3734.123 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall make a determination as to whether it is necessary or appropriate to continue the restrictions established in division (C) of section 3734.123 of the Revised Code during the period of time between the issuance of the assessment and the issuance of the next succeed...

...The director of environmental protection may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing requirements governing the beneficial use of material from a horizontal well that has come in contact with a refined oil-based substance and that is not technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material.

... as possible and not later than thirty days after application. On the basis of the hearing, the director shall continue the order in effect, revoke it, or modify it. No emergency order shall remain in effect for more than one hundred twenty days after its issuance. (C) If the director determines that any person is violating or has violated this chapter, a rule adopted thereunder, or a term or condition of a p...

...The director of environmental protection shall periodically determine the market potential and feasibility of the exchange, use, and recovery of resources from hazardous waste. Using the information required under divisions (B) and (I) of section 3734.12 of the Revised Code, the director shall, in compliance with the procedures adopted under division (G) of section 3734.12 of the Revised Code pertaining to the protec...

...After December 31, 1986, no person shall dispose of any acute hazardous waste listed in 40 C.F.R. 261.33 (e), as amended, in this state unless the director of environmental protection determines, based upon information provided by the generator of the waste, that the waste: (A) Cannot be treated and rendered nonhazardous, recycled, reclaimed, or destroyed by incineration or biological agents; (B) Has been reduced t...

...(A) No person shall transport hazardous waste anywhere in this state unless the person has first filed an annual registration statement with, and paid an annual registration fee to, the United States department of transportation in accordance with 49 C.F.R. 107.601 to 107.620. For the purposes of this section, "registered transporter" means any person who has filed an annual registration statement with, and paid an ...

...A generator of hazardous waste who violates any of the rules adopted by the director of environmental protection in accordance with divisions (B) and (I) of section 3734.12 of the Revised Code shall be liable for any damage or injury caused by the violation and for the costs of rectifying the violation and conditions caused by the violation in addition to any civil penalties or criminal fines imposed for the violatio...

...No person shall accept for transportation or for treatment, storage, or disposal any hazardous waste whose generator has violated any of the rules adopted by the director of environmental protection in accordance with divisions (B) and (I) of section 3734.12 of the Revised Code with respect to the waste. Any person who accepts for treatment, storage, or disposal any hazardous waste and who violates any of the rules a...

...(A) The director of environmental protection may expend m oney credited to the hazardous waste facility management fund created in section 3734.18 of the Revised Code, the hazardous waste clean-up fund created in section 3734.28 of the Revised Code, or the environmental protection remediation fund created in section 3734.281 of the Revised Code for a ny of the following: ( 1) The payment of the cost of measures nec...

...(A) The director of environmental protection may acquire by purchase, gift, donation, contribution, or appropriation in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.21 of the Revised Code any hazardous waste facility or any solid waste facility containing significant quantities of hazardous waste that, because of its condition and the types and quantities of hazardous waste contained in the facility, constitutes an imminen...

...l covenant in accordance with sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code. When selling any such cleaned-up facility, the director shall retain the right to enter upon the facility, in person or by an authorized agent, to provide for the post-closure care, maintenance, and monitoring of the facility. The director shall provide for the post-closure care, maintenance, and monitoring of any such facility sold ...

... director in accordance with sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code.

... director in accordance with sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code. (E) As used in this section, "commerce" includes, but is not limited to, agriculture, forestry, and housing.

...Before making grants from the hazardous waste facility management fund created in section 3734.18 of the Revised Code or the hazardous waste clean-up fund created in section 3734.28 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall consider each project application submitted by a political subdivision under section 3734.25 of the Revised Code, each application submitted by the owner of a facil...

...Except as otherwise provided in sections 3734.281 and 3734.282 of the Revised Code, moneys collected under sections 3734.122, 3734.13, 3734.20, 3734.22, 3734.24, and 3734.26 of the Revised Code and under the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 2767, 42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq., as amended, including moneys recovered under division (B)(1) of this section, shall b...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3734.282 of the Revised Code, moneys collected from judgements for the state or settlements with the director of environmental protection, including those associated with bankruptcies, related to actions brought under Chapter 3714. and section 3734.13, 3734.20, 3734.22, 6111.03, or 6111.04 of the Revised Code; and moneys received under the "Comprehensive Environ...

...Except for natural resource damage assessment costs recovered by the state that are required by section 3734.28 of the Revised Code to be credited to the hazardous waste clean-up fund created in that section, all money collected by the state for natural resources damages under the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 2767, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., as amended, ...

...Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code that limits the time within which an action shall be commenced, a cause of action for personal injury or real property damage resulting from a civil violation of the hazardous waste provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to have accrued or arisen until the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered the injuries or damage, provided that this...