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...No person shall violate sections 3733.41 to 3733.471 of the Revised Code or the rules adopted thereunder.

...Whoever violates section 3733.48 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

... or potential hazard to human health or safety or to the environment when improperly stored, treated, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed. "Hazardous waste" includes any substance identified by regulation as hazardous waste under the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976," 90 Stat. 2806, 42 U.S.C.A. 6921, as amended, and does not include any substance that is subject to the "Atomic Energy Act ...

...nce or a hazard to the public health or safety or the environment. Applications for variances shall contain such detail plans, specifications, and information regarding objectives, procedures, controls, and other pertinent data as the director may require. The director shall grant a variance only if the applicant demonstrates to the director's satisfaction that construction and operation of the solid waste facility i...

...st one thousand feet from any domicile, school, prison, or jail that is in existence on the date on which the application for the permit to establish the incinerator is submitted under division (B)(2)(b) of section 3734.05 of the Revised Code. (c) Establish quality control and testing procedures to ensure compliance with the rules adopted under division (B)(2)(b) of this section; (d) Authorize infectious wastes...

...As used in sections 3734.024, 3734.025, and 3734.026 of the Revised Code, "off-site infectious waste treatment facility" and "treatment facility" mean an infectious waste treatment facility for which a license is required under division (B) of section 3734.05 of the Revised Code. "Off-site infectious waste treatment facility" and "treatment facility" also include a solid waste incineration facility for which the lice...

...For the purpose of providing funding to a municipal corporation or township for conducting environmental monitoring programs in connection with off-site infectious waste treatment facilities located within the municipal corporation or township; providing local emergency response services in connection with such a facility and the transportation of infectious wastes to such a facility; and providing financial assistan...

...The owner or operator of an off-site infectious waste treatment facility shall pay the fees levied by an ordinance or resolution adopted under section 3734.024 of the Revised Code monthly to the treasurer or other such officer of the municipal corporation as, by virtue of the charter, has the duties of the treasurer or to the fiscal officer of the township. The owner or operator shall remit the fees to the treasurer...

...The director of environmental protection shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing procedures for remitting fees levied under section 3734.024 of the Revised Code to the treasurers or other appropriate fiscal officers of municipal corporations and to the fiscal officers of townships. The rules also shall establish the dates for remitting the fees to those officers and may est...

...(A) No person shall commingle with any type of solid wastes, hazardous waste, or infectious wastes any low-level radioactive waste whose treatment, recycling, storage, or disposal is governed under division (B) of section 3748.10 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as authorized by the director of health under Chapter 3748. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it, no owner or operator of a solid waste faci...

...s not pose a threat to public health or safety or the environment. The rules may establish differing standards of quality for compost products, in accordance with their various uses, if the director considers such standards to be necessary or appropriate to protect public health and safety and the environment. The rules shall require the owner or operator of a composting facility subject to this chapter that produces...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the standards of quality for compost products established in rules adopted under division (A) of section 3734.028 of the Revised Code apply to compost products produced by a facility composting dead animals that is subject to section 939.04 of the Revised Code in addition to compost products produced by facilities subject to this chapter. (2) Th...

...No person shall dispose of solid wastes by open burning or open dumping, except as authorized by the director of environmental protection in rules adopted in accordance with division (V) of section 3734.01, section 3734.02, or sections 3734.70 to 3734.73 of the Revised Code and except for burying or burning the body of a dead animal as authorized by section 941.14 of the Revised Code. No person shall dispose of treat...

...The board of health of each district maintaining a program on the approved list under division (A) or (B) of section 3734.08 of the Revised Code shall provide for the inspection, licensing, and enforcement of sanitary standards for solid waste facilities, other than scrap tire facilities, in conformity with this chapter and for the inspection and licensing of solid waste facilities that are scrap tire collection, sto...

...nditions as to threaten human health or safety or the environment, the director may issue to any responsible party an order directing the responsible party to prepare and submit a new or revised explosive gas monitoring and reporting plan that complies with division (A) of this section and provides for the adequate evaluation of explosive gas generation at and migration from the solid waste disposal facility or close...

...Upon receiving a written complaint of the presence of vectors at a scrap tire collection, storage, monocell, monofill, or recovery facility, the board of health of the health district having jurisdiction promptly shall conduct an inspection of the facility named in the complaint. If the board of health finds from the inspection that vectors are present at the facility in such numbers that the chemical treatment of th...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no political subdivision of this state shall require any additional zoning or other approval, consent, permit, certificate, or condition for the operation of a byproduct disposal facility authorized by a byproduct disposal facility permit to install or modify issued under division (B) of former section 3734.054, division (B) or (C)(3) of former section 3734.055,...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in divisions (A)(2), (3), (4), and (5) of this section and in section 3734.82 of the Revised Code, the annual fee for a solid waste facility license shall be in accordance with the following schedule: AUTHORIZED MAXIMUM DAILY WASTE RECEIPT (TONS) ANNUAL LICENSE FEE 100 or less $ 5,000 101 to 200 12,500 201 to 500 30,000 501 or more 60,000 For the purpose ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the waste management fund. The fund shall consist of money credited to it under this chapter and Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to pay the costs of administering and enforcing this chapter and Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those chapters, including ground water evaluations rela...

...(A) Before a license is initially issued and annually thereafter, or more often if necessary, the board of health shall cause each solid waste facility and infectious waste treatment facility to be inspected and a record to be made of each inspection and shall require each solid waste facility and infectious waste treatment facility in the health district to be in substantial compliance with this chapter and the rule...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall survey annually each health district licensing solid waste facilities and infectious waste treatment facilities as provided by section 3734.05 or 3734.81 of the Revised Code to determine whether there is substantial compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it and, upon determining that there is substantial compliance, shall place the health district upon ...

... action to protect the public health or safety or the environment, no suspension, modification, or revocation of a permit or license shall be made effective until the permit or license holder has been given notice in writing and, in the case of a permit holder, a reasonable period of time to make corrections. Appeal from any modification, suspension, revocation, or denial of a license shall be made in accordance with...

...The attorney general or the prosecuting attorney of the county, city director of law, or village solicitor where a violation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, upon request of the respective board of health of the health district, the legislative authority of a political subdivision in which a violation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, or the director of environmental protection, shall criminally pros...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) or (H) of this section, any person aggrieved or adversely affected by an alleged violation of this chapter or a rule, permit, license, variance, or order issued or adopted under it may commence a civil action on his own behalf against any person, the state, or a political subdivision that is alleged to be in violation of this chapter or a rule, permit, license, variance, or orde...

...(A) No person shall violate any section of this chapter, any rule adopted under it, or any order issued under section 3734.13 of the Revised Code. (B) No person who holds a permit or license issued under this chapter shall violate any of the terms and conditions of the permit or license. (C) No person shall operate a solid waste facility or portion of such a facility within the boundaries of a state park establishe...