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...e credited to the underground injection control fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. Beginning July 1, 1992, and annually thereafter, the director shall request the office of budget and management to, and the office shall, transfer fifteen per cent of the moneys in the fund to the geological mapping fund created in section 1505.09 of the Revised Code for the purpose of paying the expenses of the depar...

...is section to the underground injection control fund created in section 6111.046 of the Revised Code. (C) The director, by rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall prescribe any dates not specified in this section and procedures for collecting and forwarding the fee levied by this section. The rules may prescribe other requirements for implementing and administering this section. (D)...

...In the discharge of his duties under sections 6111.043 to 6111.045 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection may call to his assistance temporarily employees of any state department, agency, authority, or institution, or any college or university financed wholly or partly by the state. The employees shall not receive any additional compensation above that which they receive from the departments, a...

...Section 6111.047 and rules adopted under division (B)(5) of section 6111.043 of the Revised Code do not apply to any nonhazardous class I injection well that disposes of naturally occurring formation fluids extracted during salt mining processes into an injection zone consisting of the Oriskany sandstone at depths of not more than one thousand five hundred feet.

... and 502 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and may apply to the court of common pleas having jurisdiction for a warrant permitting the entrance and inspection. Any authorized representative of the director at reasonable times may examine any records or memoranda pertaining to sludge management, the operation of disposal systems, the drilling, conversion, or operation of injection wells, or discharges by "i...

...(A) As used in this section, "structural products" means products that are created from clay, shale, or a combination of clay and shale, are generated as a result of a manufacturing process that is designed to create products intended to form part of a building or other structure, and are no longer wanted for that originally intended use. "Structural products" includes floor tiles, bricks, paving bricks, terra-cotta ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Blast furnace slag" means a nonmetallic material that is an intended output or intended result of the melting of iron ore or iron pellets together with coke 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...

...(A) All proceedings of the director of environmental protection or of the director's officers or agents under sections 6111.01 to 6111.08 of the Revised Code, including the adoption, issuance, modification, rescission, or revocation of rules and regulations, permits, orders, and notices, and the conduct of hearings, except standards of water quality adopted pursuant to section 6111.041 of the Revised Code, shall be s...

...(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...

...Chapter 6111. of the Revised Code does not abridge rights of action or remedies in equity or under the common law, nor does such chapter, or any act done under such chapter, estop the state, or any municipal corporation or person, as riparian owners or otherwise, in the exercise of their rights in equity or under the common law to suppress nuisances or to abate pollution.

...hall be credited to the water pollution control administration fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The water pollution control administration fund shall be administered by the director. Moneys in the water pollution control administration fund shall be used to supplement other moneys available for the administration and enforcement of this chapter and the rules adopted and terms and conditions ...

...G) A product subject to registration or control under federal or state law governing foods, drugs, cosmetics, insecticides, fungicides, or rodenticides; (H) A product normally not used with water, such as a cleanser for windows, ovens, or other hard surfaces; (I) A water softening chemical, anti-scale chemical, or corrosion inhibitor intended for use in circulatory systems, such as boilers, air conditioners, coolin...

...On and after July 1, 2010, no person shall sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale a cleanser, rinsing aid, sanitizing agent, or detergent that is intended primarily for use in an automatic or machine dishwasher and that contains phosphorus in any form in excess of one-half per cent by weight expressed as elemental phosphorus. This section does not apply to either of the following: (A) Cleansers, rinsing...

...opted under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act: (1) The use of existing effluent quality as a method of calculating antidegradation-based limits shall be imposed only to the extent that the use is explicitly required by federal law or regulation as the only means available to implement antidegradation. (2) No degradation shall be allowed in waters for any pollutant that currently does not meet applicable stand...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Method detection limit" has the same meaning as in 40 C.F.R. part 136, appendix B, and shall be determined in accordance with the procedures set forth in that appendix. (2) "Practical quantification level" means a concentration that is five times the method detection limit for the most sensitive available analytical procedure currently approved under 40 C.F.R. part 136 for a poll...

...The director of environmental protection 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 ...

...When the director of environmental protection finds upon investigation, that any water purification or sewage treatment works, on account of incompetent supervision or inefficient operation is not producing an effluent of such quality as might be reasonably obtained from such water purification or sewage treatment works, and by reason of such neglect the public water supply has become impure and dangerous to health, ...

...tion 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and this chapter and rules adopted under it that any discharge, as set forth in section 401, will comply with sections 301, 302, 303, 306, and 307 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

...(A) As used in this section, "interagency review team" means the interagency group of federal, tribal, state, or local regulatory and resource agency representatives established pursuant to 33 C.F.R. 332.8(b) that reviews documentation for and advises the United States army corps of engineers district engineer on the establishment and management of a wetland mitigation bank, stream mitigation bank, in-lieu fee mitiga...

...As used in sections 6111.31 to 6111.316 of the Revised Code: (A) "Area of mitigation" or "AMIT" means the area of mitigation, as calculated using the formula specified in division (A) of section 6111.313 of the Revised Code, expressed in feet squared. (B) Area of the streamway or "ASW" means the area of the streamway, expressed in feet squared. (C) "DA" means drainage area, expressed in square miles. (D) "Eig...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 6111.31 of the Revised Code, regarding any proposed impact to an ephemeral feature that is a water of the state, the director shall not impose or require any mitigation standard, criteria, scientific 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 directo...

...low regime or better; (c) Restore the physical integrity of the ephemeral feature that is a water of the state to its pre-impact or better condition; (d) Provide at least three high resolution color photographs taken at the restored area, including one facing upstream, one facing downstream, and a closeup that clearly depicts the substrate composition and size for each restored ephemeral feature that is a water o...

...tive seed mixes in plan views; (g) A physical integrity assessment for each ephemeral feature that is a water of the state on the project site consisting of measurements of streambed width, incision (bank height) ratio measured as the lowest bank height divided by the maximum bankfull depth, substrate composition, and riparian composition on each side of the stream with the riparian area being measured as two time...

...eral permit. (C) Sediment and erosion control measures shall be designed, installed, and maintained in effective operating condition at all times during construction activities. Any such maintenance shall ensure that corrective measures will be implemented for failed controls as soon as practicable. (D) Straw bales shall not be used as a form of sediment control unless used in conjunction with another structural ...

...tion 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 shall submit a demonstration as part of a mitigation proposal that the project will result in a net improvement in water quality. (B) A project for the filling or discharge of dredged material ...