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...wing: (1) To protect and enhance the quality of the state's air 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 au...

...The director of environmental protection may do any of the following: (A) Develop programs for the prevention, control, and abatement of air pollution; (B) Advise, consult, contract, and cooperate with any governmental or private agency in the furtherance of the purposes of this chapter; (C) Encourage, participate in, or conduct studies, investigations, and research relating to air pollution, collect and dis...

...this section, 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 qual...

...The director of environmental protection may adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, an emergency action plan for 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 ...

...The director of environmental protection shall: (A) Establish a process of consultation with general purpose local governments, designated organizations or elected officials of local governments, and the secretary of any department having authority over federal land located in the state with respect to requirements of the federal Clean Air Act pertaining to transportation controls, air quality maintenance plan requi...

...y 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 materially defici...

...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 to the fund solely to administer and enforce the Title V program pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act, this chapter, and ...

...(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...

...h 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 environmental protection agency and a co...

...e adopted by the director of environmental protection that declares any of the following to be a public nuisance: (a) The emission or escape into the open air from any source or sources whatsoever, of smoke, ashes, dust, dirt, grime, acids, fumes, gases, vapors, or any other substances or combinations of substances, in such manner or in such amounts as to endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the public, or ca...

...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...

...04.01 to 3704.11 of the Revised Code, shall be construed as authorizing the director of environmental protection to make any rule, regulation, determination, or order which supersedes or limits the applicability of any law or ordinance relating to industrial health, safety, or sanitation within the boundaries of the industrial property.

...formation 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 made public, would divulge methods or processes entitled to protection as trade secr...

...ions 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 private rig...

...ode do not limit the authority a political subdivision of the state has to adopt and enforce ordinances or regulations relative to the prevention, control, and abatement of air pollution, except that every such local ordinance or regulation shall be consistent with Chapter 3704. of the Revised Code, and shall include emission standards and other regulations which are not less stringent than the emission standards and...

...ber 1, 1993, the director of environmental protection shall enter into a delegation agreement with each local air pollution control authority listed in division (O)(1) 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 political subdivision represented by th...

...tion 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 designed to measure air pollution or ambient air quality; (B) Enter upon public or private property, real or personal, at...

..., on or after July 1, 2005, no person shall sell or deliver to any distributor within this state, or import into this state for sale in this state, any motor vehicle fuel containing methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in quantities greater than one-half of one per cent by volume. (B) The attorney general, upon the request of the director of environmental protection, shall commence an action for injunctive relief in a...

...The governor may do all things necessary on behalf of the state to secure the full benefits available to the state under the federal Clean Air Act. The governor may, in accordance with the federal Clean Air Act, exercise all powers permitted by the federal Clean Air Act to be exercised by a governor, including, but not limited to, powers pertaining to the issuance of orders; adoption of rules; designation of official...

...reenactment by Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th general assembly, provided that the rules do not conflict with this section. (2) The rules adopted under division (C)(1) of this section shall provide for the issuance of inspections certificates and alternative emissions certificates. Under the rules, an inspection certificate shall be issued to the owner or lessee of a motor vehicle when the motor vehicle passes an em...

.... of the Revised Code or under a municipal or county charter or ordinance and within a county that is subject to section 3704.14 of the Revised Code shall meet emission standards for hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and, in the case of diesel fueled motor buses, particulate opacity established by the director of environmental protection under rules adopted under division (B) of this section. (B) In accordance with Cha...