Ohio Revised Code Search

...general assembly that the environmental protection agency shall: (A) Promulgate and put into execution a long term comprehensive plan and program to conserve, protect, and enhance the air, water, and other natural resources of the state; (B) Prevent and abate pollution of the environment for the protection and preservation of the health, safety, welfare, and property of the people of the state; (C) Administer...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall collect all moneys for permits, licenses, plan approvals, variances, and certifications of any nature issued and administered by the environmental protection agency under Chapter 3704., 3714., 3734., 6109., or 6111. of the Revised Code. The director shall keep a record of all such moneys collected showing the amounts received, from whom, and for what purpose collecte...

...ll moneys received by the environmental protection agency from the sale of goods or services shall be credited to the sale of goods and services fund which is hereby created in the state treasury. Moneys credited to the fund shall include: (A) Moneys received pursuant to service agreements between programs or activities of the environmental protection agency under which one program or activity within the agency prov...

...stered by the director of environmental protection. Money credited to the fund shall be used for administrative costs of the environmental protection agency. The director may assess any operating funds from which the agency receives appropriations, except the central support indirect fund, for a share of the administrative costs of the agency. The amounts assessed shall be transferred to the central support indirect ...

...in the state treasury the environmental protection fund consisting of money credited to the fund under division (A)(3) of section 3734.57 of the Revised Code. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to pay the agency's costs associated with administering and enforcing, or otherwise conducting activities under, this chapter and Chapters 3704., 3734., 3746., 3747., 3748., 3750., 3751., 3752., 37...

...s, and contributions. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to support the investigation and remediation of contaminated property and implementation of the hazardous waste provisions of Chapter 3734. of the Revised Code.

...t is administered by the environmental protection agency. (2) "Regulated entity" means an entity that is regulated under an environmental law. (B)(1) The director of environmental protection may establish within the agency a program for providing compliance and pollution prevention assistance to regulated entities. Services provided under the program may include all of the following: (a) Establishment of a st...

...The director of environmental protection shall establish within environmental protection the agency a division to administer the agency's financial, technical, and compliance programs to assist communities, businesses, and other regulated entities. The division shall administer all of the following: (A) State revolving wastewater and drinking water loan programs under sections 6109.22 and 6111.036 of the Revised Cod...

...requiring the director of environmental protection to provide public notice by publication in one or more newspapers, including one or more newspapers of general circulation, the director may instead provide public notice by publication on the environmental protection agency's official web site. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code or Administrative Code requiring the director of environmental pro...

...nd intermittent help. The environmental protection agency shall furnish such clerical and stenographic services to the commission as the commission requests and is reasonably available. Two members constitute a quorum, and no action of the commission shall be valid unless it has the concurrence of at least two members. The commission shall keep a record of its proceedings. Biennially one member shall be elected as ...

...(A) The environmental review appeals commission shall adopt or amend, as appropriate, regulations governing procedure to be followed for hearings before it, including regulations governing all of the following: (1) Expedited hearings; (2) Expedited decisions; (3) Stays. (B) No regulation adopted by the commission shall be effective until the tenth day after it has been adopted by the filing of a certified copy th...

...mit, or variance from the environmental protection agency, and includes any department, agency, or instrumentality of the federal government that is an applicant for or holder of a license, permit, or variance from the environmental protection agency. As used in this section, "action" or "act" includes the adoption, modification, or repeal of a rule or standard, the issuance, modification, or revocation of any lawf...

...ducted by the director of environmental protection in accordance with sections 119.09 and 119.10 of the Revised Code or conducted by a board of health, the environmental review appeals commission is confined to the record as certified to it by the director or the board of health, as applicable. The commission may grant a request for the admission of additional evidence when satisfied that such additional eviden...

...ereafter, the director of environmental protection shall enter into a contract for the performance of an independent evaluation of the Title V permit program to be conducted under the supervision of an independent certified public accountant. The evaluation shall review the finances, operations, revenues, costs, and expenditures of the Title V permit program under section 3704.036 of the Revised Code and the Ti...

... denied, the director of environmental protection shall refund to the applicant one-half of the amount of the review fee paid by the applicant under division (A) of this section. (B) If a person conducts any activities for which an individual state isolated wetland permit is required under Chapter 6111. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it without first obtaining such a permit, the person shall pay t...

...sury to the credit of the surface water protection fund created in section 6111.038 of the Revised Code. (D) The fees established under this section do not apply to any state agency as defined in section 119.01 of the Revised Code or to the United States army corps of engineers. (E) The fees established under this section do not apply to projects that are authorized by the environmental protection agency's genera...

...stered by the director of environmental protection. The fund may be used for both of the following purposes: (1) To pay costs incurred by the environmental protection agency in investigating, mitigating, minimizing, removing, or abating any unauthorized spill, release, or discharge of material into or upon the environment that requires emergency action to protect the public health or safety or the environment; (2) ...

...re or production of methamphetamine in violation of section 2925.04 of the Revised Code, whether or not there has been a prior conviction of that violation.

...hereby created within the environmental protection agency the Ohio environmental education fund advisory council consisting of the directors of environmental protection, natural resources, and education and workforce, or their designees, as members ex officio, one member of the house of representatives to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives or the member's designee, one member of the senate to...

...ceived by the director of environmental protection for the purposes of the fund. The fund shall be administered by the director with the advice and assistance of the Ohio environmental education fund advisory council created in section 3745.21 of the Revised Code. Moneys in the fund shall be used exclusively to develop, implement, and administer a program to enhance public awareness and the objective understanding wi...

... initiated or used by the environmental protection agency for regulatory purposes and not adopted in accordance with rules adoption procedures consistent with this chapter and Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. "Policy" includes documents, manuals, advisories, protocols, forms, and other written or electronic materials provided to the public, a regulated party, or agency personnel regarding the substance, requirements...

... penalties of any kind for the alleged violation shall be commenced not later than five years after July 23, 2002. (C) Division (B) of this section applies only if, during the time periods established in that division, proper service of process can be given in accordance with the Rules of Civil Procedure and jurisdiction of a court in this state can be obtained. (D) The time periods established in division (B...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the Volkswagen clean air act settlement fund consisting of money received by the state from the Volkswagen clean air act settlement. It is the intent of the general assembly to appropriate into the fund the money received by the state from that settlement.

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall serve as coordinator, or designate a coordinator, of harmful algae management and response. The director or the director's designee shall develop plans providing for coordination that may include, but are not limited to, the actions and items specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section. (B) The director or the director's designee shall consult with the direct...

...contains evidence regarding an alleged violation of environmental laws and a government agency charged with enforcing any of those laws has a substantial need for the information to protect public health or safety or to prevent substantial harm to property or the environment. (b) The government agency is unable to obtain the substantial equivalent of the information by other means without unreasonable delay or...