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...in a manner that results in any of the following: (1) A nuisance; (2) An exceedance of a water quality standard adopted under section 6111.041 of the Revised Code; (3) An exceedance of a primary or secondary maximum contaminant level established in rules adopted under section 6109.04 of the Revised Code; (4) An emission of an air contaminant as defined in section 3704.01 of the Revised Code; (5) A threat to publ...

...and a flux in a blast furnace, that is sold and distributed in the stream of commerce as a product. (2) "Steel slag" means an intended output or intended result of the use of an electric arc furnace or basic oxygen furnace to make steel that is all of the following: (a) Not a hazardous waste; (b) Poured from the furnace in a molten state, cooled, and processed to remove all free metallic; (c) Sold and distrib...

...issued, unless the applicant or permit holder has been afforded an opportunity for a hearing prior to the refusal to issue the permit or prior to the modification or revocation of the permit. (C) Whenever the director officially determines that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health or welfare, the director may, without notice or hearing, issue an order reciting the existence of ...

...(A) No person shall violate or fail to perform any duty imposed by sections 6111.01 to 6111.08 o r division (B) of section 6111.33 of the Revised Code or violate any order, rule, or term or condition of a permit issued or adopted by the director of environmental protection pursuant to those sections. Each day of violation is a separate offense. (B) The attorney general, upon the written request of the director, shal...

... law to suppress nuisances or to abate pollution.

...(A) Any person who violates section 6111.07 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars per day of violation. Any person who purposely violates section 6111.10 or 6111.11 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty of fifty dollars for a first violation and a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation occurring within twelve months ...

...ulding, Defiance, and Williams, a household laundry detergent containing phosphorus in any form in excess of one-half per cent by weight expressed as elemental phosphorus. This section does not apply to: (A) A cleanser, rinsing aid, sanitizing agent, or detergent intended primarily for use in an automatic or machine dishwasher; (B) An industrial or commercial conversion coating agent, corrosion remover, pain...

...ection does not apply to either of the following: (A) Cleansers, rinsing aids, sanitizing agents, or detergents that are used in an automatic or machine dishwasher in a commercial or institutional facility; (B) Retail sales or offers for sale from a retailer's inventory of a product that is otherwise covered by this section and that remains at the end of the business day on June 30, 2010, if the retailer's inv...

...ion shall establish an antidegradation policy applicable to surface waters of the state pursuant to applicable federal laws and regulations. The purpose of the policy shall be to maintain levels of water quality that are currently better than prescribed by applicable standards except in situations when a need to allow a lower level of water quality is demonstrated based on technical, social, and economic criteria. No...

...pproved under 40 C.F.R. part 136 for a pollutant unless the director of environmental protection, by rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, establishes a different practical quantification level for the pollutant that is consistent with and no more stringent than the appropriate national consensus standard or other generally accepted standard. (B) Notwithstanding any other provisions of ...

...ion may enter into an agreement with a political subdivision or investor-owned public utility that owns or operates a disposal system and that intends to extend the sewerage lines of its disposal system or to increase the number of service connections to its sewerage system, which agreement authorizes a qualified official or employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned public utility, as determined by the ...

...r body of water has become offensively polluted or has become a public nuisance or that a public water supply taken from such stream, watercourse, canal, lake, pond, or body of water has been rendered impure and dangerous to health, the director shall issue an order to the mayor or managing officer or officers of the municipal corporation, public institution, or person having charge of or owning such water purificati...

...d on those forms as well as all of the following: (1) A copy of a letter from the United States army corps of engineers documenting its jurisdiction over the wetlands, streams, or other waters of the state that are the subject of the section 401 water quality certification application; (2) If the project involves impacts to a wetland, a wetland characterization analysis consistent with the Ohio rapid assessment m...

...cant experience in at least one of the following: (a) The restoration of wetlands or streams; (b) The enhancement and protection of wetlands or streams; (c) The development of compensatory mitigation plans. (2) At least one of the appointees shall maintain accurate and complete minutes of interagency review team meetings, including documentation of the basis for any comments or decisions of the interagency re...

...in square miles. (D) "Eight-digit hydrologic unit," "enhancement," "in-lieu fee mitigation," "mitigation," "mitigation bank service area," "restoration," "wetlands," and "wetland mitigation bank" have the same meanings as in section 6111.02 of the Revised Code. (E) "LV" means the valley length of stream, expressed in feet. (F) "Permanent impact" means any impact that is not a temporary impact. (G) "Temporary ...

...method, process, or other procedure or policy that is not specified in sections 6111.313 to 6111.316 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding section 6111.31 of the Revised Code, the director shall not impose any requirements beyond those specified in sections 6111.31 to 6111.316 of the Revised Code with respect to any activity impacting an ephemeral feature that is a water of the state in the issuance of a section...

...e AMIT and VMIT shall be calculated as follows: (1) First, calculate the area of the streamway (ASW). The ASW is the WSW multiplied by the LV. (2) Next, calculate the AMIT as follows: (a) For streams with a slope that is less than or equal to two per cent, the AMIT is equal to the ASW divided by two. (b) For streams with a slope that is greater than two but not more than four per cent, the AMIT is equal to th...

...ental protection may impose all of the following mitigation reporting and monitoring requirements on any person performing mitigation as required under division (B)(1)(a) of section 6111.313 of the Revised Code: (1) A requirement that all mitigation for an ephemeral feature that is a water of the state be monitored for up to two years following the completion of mitigation construction activities. If the mitigation...

... Best management practices include the following: (A) All ephemeral features that are a water of the state that are to be avoided shall be clearly indicated on site drawings, demarcated in the field, and protected with suitable materials, such as silt fencing, prior to site disturbance. These materials shall remain in place and be maintained throughout the construction process and removed after completion of constr...

...state if the activity is either of the following: (A) A restoration or enhancement project that will result in a net improvement of water quality. Such projects may include a project under section 319 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, an H2Ohio project, a water resource restoration sponsor program, a wetland mitigation bank, or an in-lieu fee mitigation project. To qualify under this exception, a person s...

... maintenance activities for any of the following: (1) Confined disposal facilities; (2) Beneficial use projects; (3) Beach nourishment projects if at least eighty per cent of the dredged material is sand; (4) Placement in the littoral drift if at least sixty per cent of the dredged material is sand; (5) Habitat restoration projects; (6) Projects involving amounts of dredged material that do not exceed ten thous...

...location except in accordance with the following: (1) Section 6111.32 of the Revised Code; (2) Rules adopted under Chapter 6111. of the Revised Code; (3) A permit issued under any other section of this chapter or under rules adopted under any such section; or (4) Any other authorization issued by the director of environmental protection.

...der this section establish both of the following: (1) Criteria for determining when dredged material and material excavated or dredged from adjacent or connected commercial maritime port facilities does not constitute either of the following: (a) Solid wastes; (b) Other wastes. (2) Requirements and procedures for the issuance, modification, suspension, revocation, and denial of an authorization, authorization by ...

... recreation, fish, wildlife, flood control, and flood plain management. The director of environmental protection shall not adopt any comprehensive plan until the director of natural resources approves those portions of the plan relating to recreation, fish, wildlife, flood control, and flood plain management. In the performance of his functions relating to comprehensive water resource management planning, the direc...

... protection agency shall do all of the following: (A) Primarily with regard to water quality, collect, study, and interpret all available information, statistics, and data pertaining to the supply, use, conservation, and replenishment of the ground and surface waters in the state in coordination with other agencies of this state; (B) Primarily with regard to water quality, be authorized to cooperate with and negoti...