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...n of industrial compliance, a board of health of a health district, or a certified department of building inspection of a municipal corporation or a county shall have the entire system of drainage and ventilation repaired, as the division, board of health, or department of building inspection directs by its order. After due notice to repair that work is given, the owner, agent, or manager shall notify the publ...

...ode. The superintendent, the board of health of a general or city health district, or any person charged with enforcing the rules of the division adopted under sections 3703.01 to 3703.08 of the Revised Code may petition the court of common pleas for injunctive or other appropriate relief requiring any person violating a rule adopted or order issued by the superintendent under those sections to comply with th...

...(A) Within ninety days after September 16, 2004, the superintendent of industrial compliance shall appoint a backflow advisory board consisting of not more than ten members, who shall serve at the pleasure of the superintendent. The superintendent shall appoint a representative from the plumbing section of the division of industrial compliance, three representatives recommended by the plumbing administrator of the di...

...Whoever violates sections 3703.01 to 3703.08 of the Revised Code, or any rule the division of industrial compliance is required to enforce under such sections, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or both. No person shall be imprisoned under this section for the first offense, and the prosecution always shall be as for ...

...opted by the director to protect public health and welfare limits the emissions from the source to less than ten pounds per day of an air contaminant or restricts the operation of the source in a manner equivalent to an emission limit of less than ten pounds per day; (3) The source emits radionuclides; (4) The source, alone or in combination with similar air contaminant sources at the same facility, would result in...

...r resources so as to promote the public health, welfare, economic vitality, and productive capacity of the people of the state; (2) To enable the state, through the director of environmental protection, to adopt and maintain a program for the prevention, control, and abatement of air pollution that is consistent with the federal Clean Air Act; (3) To authorize the state to obtain financial assistance and delegation...

... of exposure, a threat of adverse human health effects, including, but not limited to, substances that are known to be, or may reasonably be anticipated to be, carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, or neurotoxic, that cause reproductive dysfunction, or that are acutely or chronically toxic, or a threat of adverse environmental effects whether through ambient concentrations, bioaccumulation, deposition, or otherwise, ...

...Prior to issuance or renewal of a permit or a variance under division (F), (G), or (H) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection may require the applicant to install such equipment and conduct such tests and analyses as the director finds reasonable and necessary to determine adequately the amount and content of any emissions from such sources, the ambient air quality at the pro...

...or the purpose of protecting the public health during air pollution episodes associated with atmospheric temperature inversions, which plan may define various levels of emergency conditions, the criteria on which such levels are based, and the measures to be taken at each level. The plan may include means for cooperating with persons outside this state during interstate air pollution emergencies. If the director fin...

...endar year, to advise the public of the health hazards associated with such pollution, to enhance public awareness of the measures that can be taken to prevent such standards from being exceeded and the ways in which the public can participate in regulatory and other efforts to improve air quality, and to satisfy public notice requirements of the federal Clean Air Act.

...(A) Within sixty days after the director of environmental protection or the director's agent or authorized representative receives an application for the issuance of an initial permit to operate, or for the modification or renewal of such a permit, pursuant to rules adopted under division (G) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code, the director shall determine whether the application is substantially complete or ma...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Title V clean air fund. Except as otherwise provided in division (K) of section 3745.11 of the Revised Code, all moneys collected under division (B) of that section, and any gifts, grants, or contributions received by the director of environmental protection for the purposes of the fund, shall be credited to the fund. The director shall expend all moneys credited...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall develop and administer a federally approvable Title V permit program and shall take all necessary and appropriate action to implement, through the issuance of Title V permits, applicable requirements of the federal Clean Air Act. Title V permits shall be required only for major sources and affected sources, as defined in 40 C.F.R. 70.2, and solid waste incineration u...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall formulate and implement a tiered permitting system for air contaminant sources that categorizes, prioritizes, and expedites review of, and final action on, applications for installation permits and operating permits issued pursuant to divisions (F) and (G) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code, respectively. The tiered permitting system shall include at least exempt...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall maintain and make readily available to the public a best available technology information clearinghouse. (B) The director shall make readily available to the public interpretive guidelines and technical guidance in order to effect technically sound, consistent, and efficient permit processing under this chapter and rules adopted under it. (C) The director shall dev...

...Not later than the first day of March each year, the director of environmental protection shall prepare and submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the timeliness of the issuance of installation permits pursuant to division (F) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code for the immediately preceding year. The report shall include indicators to monitor the processing of installation permits by the envi...

...The adoption, modification, and repeal of rules and the issuance, revocation, modification, and denial of permits and variances under this chapter shall be in accordance with Chapter 119., Chapter 3745., and division (H) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code.

...(A) No person shall cause, permit, or allow emission of an air contaminant in violation of any rule adopted by the director of environmental protection under division (E) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code unless the person is the holder of a variance that is issued under division (H) of that section and consistent with the federal Clean Air Act permitting the emission of the contaminant in excess of that permitt...

...(A) The attorney general, upon the request of the director of environmental protection, shall prosecute any person who violates section 3704.05 or 3704.16 of the Revised Code. (B) The attorney general, upon request of the director, shall bring an action for an injunction, a civil penalty, or any other appropriate proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction against any person violating or threatening to...

...law or ordinance relating to industrial health, safety, or sanitation within the boundaries of the industrial property.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, any records, reports, or information obtained under this chapter shall be available for public inspection, except that upon a showing satisfactory to the director of environmental protection by any person that such records, reports, or information, or any particular part thereof, other than emission data, to which the director has access under this chapter, if m...

...Determinations made by the director of environmental protection or other persons acting under sections 3704.03 and 3704.04 of the Revised Code shall not be used as evidence in civil actions nor create any presumption of law or finding of fact which shall inure to or be for the benefit of any person other than the state, and sections 3704.01 to 3704.07 of the Revised Code do not create, enlarge, or abrogate existing p...

...nably necessary to guarantee the public health and safety and necessary to ensure the efficient operation of the permit system, and such rules may contain a schedule of fees for the permits. A municipal corporation or township may revoke a permit for violation of any provision of this section or any rule adopted by the municipal corporation or township pursuant thereto. Annually, in accordance with a schedule specifi...

...(A) Not later than October 1, 1993, the director of environmental protection shall enter into a delegation agreement with each local air pollution control authority listed in divisions (N)(1)(a) to (h) of section 3704.01 of the Revised Code under which the local air pollution control authority agrees to perform on behalf of the environmental protection agency air pollution control regulatory services within the polit...

...For the purpose of fulfilling the duties and obligations imposed pursuant to a delegation agreement entered into under section 3704.111 of the Revised Code, a local air pollution control authority, in the name of the environmental protection agency, may do all of the following within the political subdivisions that it represents: (A) Establish, maintain, and operate air quality monitoring stations and other devices ...