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...The Ohio air quality development authority may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges for the use or services of any air quality project and contract in the manner provided by this section with one or more persons, one or more governmental agencies, or any combination thereof, desiring the use or services of such project, and fix the terms, conditions, rentals, or other charges for such use or services. ...

...Each air quality project, when constructed and placed in operation, shall be maintained and kept in good condition and repair by the Ohio air quality development authority or the authority shall cause the same to be maintained and kept in good condition and repair. Each such project shall be operated by such operating employees as the authority employs or pursuant to a contract or lease with a person or governmental ...

...All air quality revenue bonds issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxi...

...the state, for the improvement of their health, safety, convenience, and welfare, and for the enhancement of their residential, agricultural, recreational, economic, commercial, and industrial opportunities and is a public purpose. As the operation and maintenance of air quality projects will constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, the Ohio air quality development authority shall not be requir...

...The Ohio air quality development authority may acquire by purchase, whenever it finds such purchase expedient, any land, property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and other interests in lands as it finds to be necessary or convenient for the construction and operation of any air quality project, upon such terms and at such price as it considers reasonable and are agreed upon between the authority and th...

...The Ohio air quality development authority may acquire by appropriation pursuant to division (J) of section 3706.04 of the Revised Code any land, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, or other property necessary or proper for the construction or the efficient operation of any air quality project. In any proceedings for appropriation under this section, the procedure to be followed shall be in accordance with ...

...When the Ohio air quality development authority finds it necessary to change the location of any portion of any public road, state highway, railroad, or public utility facility in connection with the construction of an air quality project, it shall cause the same to be reconstructed at such location as the division of government having jurisdiction over such road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility finds m...

...(A) There is hereby created in the Ohio air quality development authority the office of ombudsperson for the small business stationary source technical and environmental compliance assistance program created under section 3704.18 of the Revised Code. The office shall exercise its duties independently of any other state agency. (B) The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint the ombu...

...All meetings of the Ohio air quality development authority shall be public. All final actions of the authority shall be journalized and such journal and the records of the authority shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times, except that any records or information relating to secret processes or secret methods of manufacture or production that may be obtained by the authority or other persons acting u...

...Sections 3706.01 to 3706.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

...As used in sections 3706.25 to 3706.29 of the Revised Code: (A) "Advanced energy project" means any technologies, products, activities, or management practices or strategies that facilitate the generation or use of electricity or energy and that reduce or support the reduction of energy consumption or support the production of clean, renewable energy for industrial, distribution, commercial, institutional, governme...

...(A) Determinations made by the executive director of the Ohio air quality development authority, with the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the authority, that a particular project is an advanced energy project and is consistent with Chapter 166. of the Revised Code and Section 2p or 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, shall be conclusive as to the validity and enforceability of the obligatio...

...The Ohio air quality development authority shall, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt any rules necessary to implement sections 3706.25 to 3706.28 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 3706.40 to 3706.65 of the Revised Code: (A) "Qualifying solar resource" means an electric generating facility in this state to which all of the following apply: (1) The facility uses or will use solar energy as the primary energy source. (2) The facility obtained a certificate for construction of a major utility facility from the power siting board prior to June 1, 2019. (3) The facility i...

...Not later than February 1, 2020, the owner or operator of a qualifying solar resource may apply to the Ohio air quality development authority to receive payments for solar energy credits under section 3706.55 of the Revised Code.

...After receiving an application under section 3706.41 of the Revised Code, the Ohio air quality development authority shall review and approve the application, not later than March 31, 2020, if the resource meets the definition of a qualifying solar resource in section 3706.40 of the Revised Code.

...All financial and proprietary information, including trade secrets, submitted to the Ohio air quality development authority under sections 3706.41 and 3706.43 of the Revised Code is confidential information and is not a public record for the purpose of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

...(A) An owner or operator of a qualifying solar resource whose application was approved under section 3706.43 of the Revised Code shall report to the Ohio air quality development authority, not later than seven days after the close of each quarter, the number of megawatt hours the resource produced, if any, in the previous quarter. The first report shall be made not later than April 7, 2020, and the last report shall ...

...(A)(1) Beginning for all bills rendered on or after January 1, 2021, by an electric distribution utility in this state, such electric distribution utility shall collect from all of its retail electric customers in this state, each month, a charge which, in the aggregate, is sufficient to produce a revenue requirement of twenty million dollars annually for total disbursements required under section 3706.55 of the Revi...

...(A) There is hereby created the solar generation fund. The fund shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state but shall not be part of the state treasury. The fund shall consist of the charges collected under section 3706.46 of the Revised Code and deposited by the Ohio air quality development authority, in consultation with the public utilities commission. The interest generated by the fund shall be retained in ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, each fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2029, and subject to controlling board approval, the Ohio air quality development authority may use, from the solar generation fund created under section 3706.49 of the Revised Code, up to a maximum of three hundred thousand dollars to pay for the authority's administrative costs for that year under s...

...(A) For the period beginning with April of 2021 and ending with January of 2028, the Ohio air quality development authority shall, in April of 2021 and every three months thereafter through the end of the period, and not later than the twenty-first day of the month, direct the treasurer of state to remit money from the solar generation fund created under section 3706.49 of the Revised Code. Subject to section 3706.59...

...(A) Notwithstanding the solar energy credit application deadlines for qualifying solar resources under sections 3706.41 and 3706.43 of the Revised Code, the Ohio air quality development authority shall rereview and approve an application from a qualifying solar resource if the resource submitted the application before March 1, 2020. (B) The deadlines for the quarterly reports required under section 3706.45 of the ...

...If the money in the solar generation fund is insufficient to make the payments in the amounts required under section 3706.55 of the Revised Code for all owners and operators of qualifying solar resources, then the authority shall do both of the following: (A) Not later than twenty-one days after the close of the quarter in which the charges collected were insufficient, direct the treasurer to prorate payments from ...

...Not later than January 1, 2020, the Ohio air quality development authority shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary to implement sections 3706.40 to 3706.65 of the Revised Code.