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...ter 119. of the Revised Code specifying construction activities that do not, by themselves, constitute installing works for the treatment or disposal of sewage or other waste for which approval of plans is required under section 6111.44 or 6111.45 of the Revised Code. The activities shall include the grading and clearing of land, on-site storage of portable parts and equipment, and the construction of foundations or ...

...age and industrial wastes whenever considered necessary or whenever requested to do so by local health officials and may issue and enforce orders and shall adopt rules governing the operation and maintenance of the works or means of treatment and disposal of such sewage and industrial wastes. In adopting rules under this section, the agency shall establish standards governing the construction, operation, and maintena...

...iological water quality monitoring data concerning surface waters, including qualitative scoring of physical habitat characteristics and the sampling of fish, macroinvertebrates, and water quality, that have been collected by or submitted to the director of environmental protection and that comply with the requirements established in rules adopted under section 6111.51 of the Revised Code. "Credible data" may include...

... procedures that must be followed in order to classify data as credible at that level. The rules shall provide that level three credible data are collected by employing the most stringent methods and procedures, level two credible data are collected using methods and procedures that are less stringent than methods and procedures used to collect level three credible data, but more stringent than methods and pro...

...t any of the following activities: (A) Developing, reviewing, and revising use designations in water quality standards; (B) Developing a statewide water quality inventory or other water assessment report; (C) Identifying, listing, and delisting waters of the state for the purpose of section 303(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (D) Determining whether a water of the state is supporting its designated...

...ntifically defensible, and free from preconceived bias. The rules shall authorize individuals with the necessary academic credentials and experience to train other persons to be qualified data collectors. The rules also shall require that the data collectors follow plans containing data collection methods, sampling and analysis methods, and quality assurance and quality control procedures that comply with those esta...

...ronmental protection agency in a format designated by the director of environmental protection. Each such agency shall submit the data to the director at the same time that the agency compiles or summarizes the data for its own use, but at a minimum shall submit the data to the director annually. If the director determines that the data were collected in accordance with the rules adopted under section 6111.51 of the ...

...Following the adoption of rules under sections 6111.51 and 6111.53 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall establish and maintain a computerized database or databases composed of all credible data in the director's possession and shall make the data available to other agencies and all other interested persons. The data shall be stored in such a manner that they are easily retrieved and ana...

...n 303(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. However, the director of environmental protection shall continue to monitor the water of the state to determine the source or sources of the impairment before a total maximum daily load is established for the water of the state pursuant to that section. (B) The director shall not include a water of the state on a list established under section 303(d) of the Federa...

... 1313(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The director shall establish a TMDL only for pollutants that the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency has identified under section 1314(a)(2) of that act as suitable for such calculation. The director may modify a TMDL subsequent to the establishment of the TMDL in accordance with division (G) of section 6111.563 of the Revised Code. T...

...cted dischargers, county soil and water conservation districts, and other stakeholders during the development of a TMDL after March 24, 2015, at each of the following stages of development of a TMDL and plans and actions necessary for TMDL implementation: (a) The project assessment study plan, including portions of the plan that seek to determine the causes and sources of impairments or threats; (b) The biological ...

... summary of the comments. (E)(1) After conclusion of the public comment period, completion of the responsiveness summary under division (D) of this section, completion of any public hearing, and if the director determines it is appropriate to complete the TMDL, the director shall establish a final TMDL. (2) The director shall modify a TMDL that is successfully challenged under section 6111.564 of the Revised Code a...

...ed during the appeal of an NPDES permit containing TMDL-based effluent limits, pretreatment limits derived therefrom, or other terms and conditions based on that TMDL before the environmental review appeals commission in accordance with Chapter 3745. of the Revised Code. (B) In the case of a TMDL-based permit appeal by a publicly owned treatment works, the environmental review appeals commission shall join as partie...

...ed sewerage system, or enforcing the Federal Water Pollution Control Act as applied to publicly owned sewerage systems, the director of environmental protection, to the extent allowable under that act and regulations adopted under that act, shall consider all of the following, as applicable, notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary: (A) Limitations on the ability of an applicant fo...

...a separate offense. (F) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of any section of this chapter, in addition to the financial sanctions authorized by this chapter or section 2929.18 or 2929.28 or any other section of the Revised Code, the court imposing the sentence on the person may order the person to reimburse the state agency or a political subdivision for any actual costs that it incurred in ...

...ses. (B) "Governmental agencies" means departments, divisions, or other units of state government, watershed districts, soil and water conservation districts, municipal corporations, counties, townships, and other political subdivisions, special water districts, including county and regional sewer and water districts, conservancy districts, sanitary districts, sewer districts, or any other public corporation or agen...

...es and the exercise by it of the powers conferred by this chapter shall be held to be, and are hereby determined to be, essential governmental functions and public purposes of the state, but the authority is not immune from liability by reason thereof. The authority is subject to all provisions of law generally applicable to state agencies that do not conflict with this chapter. The authority shall consist of eigh...

...lopment authority under this chapter to contribute toward one or more of the following: (1) To preserve, protect, upgrade, conserve, develop, utilize, and manage the water resources of the state; (2) To prevent or abate the pollution of water resources; (3) To promote the beneficial use of waters of the state for the protection and preservation of the public health, safety, convenience, and welfare; (4) To a...

...r the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (B) Adopt an official seal; (C) Maintain a principal office and suboffices at places within the state that it designates; (D) Sue and plead in its own name and be sued and impleaded in its own name with respect to its contracts or torts of its members, employees, or agents acting within the scope of their employment, or to enforce its obligations ...

...by such facilities, and may include any contiguous territory not served by waste water facilities that the authority determines to be desirable to include in the area in order to achieve the most efficient and economical waste disposal and treatment in the area, and any other governmental agency or person that enters an agreement with the authority to join. The order may not include facilities or territory served by ...

...nmental agency itself were proposing to construct, were constructing, or had constructed waste water facilities. For such purpose the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners of a county may by resolution define an area, within their respective jurisdictions, that will derive a benefit from the waste water facilities service provided under an order, and may fix and impose ...

...pay any charge imposed pursuant to an order issued under section 6121.041 of the Revised Code within sixty days of the date due, such charge shall be deducted from the amount of the undivided local government fund to which the agency is entitled pursuant to section 5747.51 or 5747.53 of the Revised Code, and shall be paid directly to the Ohio water development authority. If a person fails to pay a charge within sixty...

... (1) Make loans for the acquisition or construction of the project to such person upon such terms as the authority may determine or authorize, including secured or unsecured loans, and, in connection therewith, enter into loan agreements, accept notes and other forms of obligation to evidence such indebtedness and mortgages, liens, pledges, assignments, or other security interests to secure such indebtedness, which ...

...With respect to a loan made under this chapter, the Ohio water development authority shall not charge any fees or fines that, in the aggregate, exceed an amount equal to the principal amount of the loan.

...ary for the study of any proposed water development project, and may use its engineering and other forces, including consulting engineers and sanitary engineers, for the purpose of effecting such study. All such expenses incurred by such directors prior to the issuance of water development revenue bonds or notes under Chapter 6121. of the Revised Code, shall be paid by the respective directors incurring such expenses...