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...m public or private water wells; (5) Enforcement of applicable public health codes; (6) Enforcement of applicable environmental laws. The request shall state with particularity the nature and extent of the alleged impacts upon the affected community or communities for which compensation is sought, the amount of compensation sought, and the terms of payment of compensation sought. The affected community or board of...

...The general assembly hereby finds and declares the following to be the public policy of this state: (A) That the off-site treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste and the off-site disposal of solid wastes, including incineration, and transfer of solid wastes are critical components of the economic structure of this state and, when properly controlled and regulated, make substantial contributions to the ge...

...y government agencies, administrative enforcement actions resulting in the imposition of sanctions, or license revocations or denials issued by any state or federal authority in the ten years immediately preceding the filing of the application, that are pending or have resulted in a finding or a settlement of a violation of any law or rule or regulation relating to the collection, transfer, transportation, treatment,...

...au of investigation and any other law enforcement agency or organization. The attorney general may provide such confidentiality regarding the information received from a law enforcement agency as may be imposed by that agency as a condition for providing that information to the attorney general. (4) The review of the application by the director shall include a review of the disclosure statement and investigative r...

..., to institute any proceeding for the enforcement of any order or process issued in execution of such power, or to punish disobedience of any such order or process by any person. (R) Any judicial proceeding to challenge or enforce an investigative demand made by the attorney general against an individual or business concern who neither resides in nor transacts business in this state shall be initiated in the court o...

...tial compliance with, or on a legally enforceable schedule that will result in compliance with, environmental laws in this state and other jurisdictions; (E) With respect to the approval of a permit, if the director determines that current prosecutions or pending charges in any jurisdiction for any of the offenses enumerated in division (B) of this section against any individual or business concern required to be l...

...Any permit or license may be revoked by the director of environmental protection or board of health for any of the following causes, in addition to other causes for revocation authorized by this chapter: (A) Any cause that would require disqualification pursuant to division (A), (B), (D), or (E) of section 3734.44 of the Revised Code from receiving a permit upon original application; (B) Fraud, deceit, or misrepres...

...Notwithstanding the disqualification of the applicant or permittee pursuant to this chapter, the director of environmental protection or the board of health may issue or renew a permit or license if the applicant or permittee severs the interest of or affiliation with the individual or business concern that would otherwise cause that disqualification or may issue or renew a license on a temporary basis for a period n...

...The director of environmental protection and the attorney general may adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, rules necessary to implement the investigations and review of applications for permits and licenses as required under sections 3734.40 to 3734.47 of the Revised Code.

...any forms necessary to administer and enforce this section. The director may cooperate with and enter into agreements with other state, local, or federal agencies to carry out the purposes of this section.

... health district whose duties include enforcement of the solid waste provisions of this chapter; (2) One member representing the interests of counties; (3) One member representing the interests of municipal corporations; (4) One member representing the interests of townships; (5) One member representing the interests of solid waste management districts; (6) One member representing a statewide environmental advoc...

...The director of environmental protection, with the advice of the materials management advisory council created in section 3734.49 of the Revised Code, shall prepare a state solid waste management plan to do all of the following: (A) Reduce reliance on the use of landfills for management of solid wastes; (B) Establish objectives for solid waste reduction, recycling, reuse, and minimization and a schedule for impleme...

...The standing committees of the house of representatives and senate that are primarily responsible for considering environmental matters shall conduct an annual review of solid waste management in this state. In conducting such an annual review, the committees may consider any topics pertaining to solid waste management, and may make any recommendations, they consider necessary or appropriate.

...(A) In order to prepare, adopt, submit, and implement a solid waste management plan that complies with section 3734.55 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of each county either shall establish and maintain a solid waste management district under Chapter 343. of the Revised Code, or shall participate in establishing and maintaining a joint solid waste management district with one or more other such ...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 3734.531 and 3734.57 of the Revised Code, "change in district composition" or "change" includes the withdrawal of a county from a joint solid waste management district, the establishment of a new county or joint district, the joinder of a county to an existing joint district, the union of two or more joint districts, or any combination thereof. (B) In addition to the requirem...

...(A) As used in this section, "deliver" has the same meaning as in division (G)(2) of section 3734.55 of the Revised Code. (B) Subject to division (H) of this section, a board of county commissioners of a county that is a member of a joint solid waste management district may withdraw from the district by doing all of the following: (1) Adopting a resolution declaring that the county will unilaterally withdraw from...

... of this section may be adopted and enforced with respect to solid waste disposal facilities in the solid waste management district that are not owned by a county or the solid waste management district only if the board submits an application to the director of environmental protection that demonstrates that there is insufficient capacity to dispose of all solid wastes that are generated within ...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the validity of any action taken prior to the date ninety days after October 29, 1993, under this chapter or Section 5 of Sub. H.B. 723 of the 119th general assembly by a solid waste management policy committee or the board of trustees of a regional solid waste management authority formed under section 343.011 of the Revised Code is not affected ...

...(A) Each county and joint solid waste management district established under Chapter 343. of the Revised Code shall prepare, adopt, submit to the director of environmental protection for review and approval, and implement a solid waste management plan for the district. The plan shall be prepared and submitted to the director in accordance with the following schedule: (1) Within twenty-four months after June 24, 1988,...

...ed plan, the director shall issue an enforcement order under division (A) of section 3734.13 of the Revised Code directing the board to comply with the implementation schedule in the plan or amended plan within a specified, reasonable time. If the director finds that the board of county commissioners or directors of a district for which the provision included in the district's initial or amended plan approved ...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of a county or board of directors of a joint solid waste management district that is ordered to implement an initial or amended solid waste management plan prepared by the director of environmental protection under section 3734.521, 3734.55, or 3734.56 of the Revised Code and that is levying fees under division (A) or (B) of section 3734.574 of the Revised Code shall reimburse th...

...(A) Each county and joint solid waste management district having a solid waste management plan approved under section 3734.521 or 3734.55 of the Revised Code with a planning period of less than fifteen years shall submit triennially, on or before the anniversary date of the approval of the initial plan, to the director of environmental protection an amended plan and certification for the subsequent ten-year period or...

... are located within the district, for enforcement of this chapter and rules, orders, and terms and conditions of permits, licenses, and variances adopted or issued under it, other than the hazardous waste provisions of this chapter and rules adopted and orders and terms and conditions of permits issued under those provisions; (4) Providing financial assistance to each county within the district to defray the added...

...If no solid waste disposal facilities are located within a county or joint solid waste management district that has entered into, or proposes to enter into, an agreement with another county or joint solid waste management district under section 343.02 of the Revised Code for the joint use of solid waste facilities, the latter district may levy fees under division (B)(2) of section 3734.57 of the Revised Code on the d...

...(A) For the purpose of defraying the cost of preparing, adopting, submitting, and implementing the initial solid waste management plan and subsequent amended plans of a solid waste management district that are required to be prepared, adopted, and submitted to the director of environmental protection under sections 3734.54 and 3734.56 of the Revised Code, respectively, and for paying the costs incurred by a board of ...