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...ction, no person shall operate a public water system in this state without a license issued by the director of environmental protection. (B) A person who proposes to operate a new public water system, in addition to complying with section 6109.07 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it, shall obtain an initial license from the director. The person shall submit an application for the initial license at least...

...A) There is hereby created the drinking water assistance fund to provide financial and technical assistance for the purposes of protecting public health and achieving and maintaining compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act and this chapter. In addition to the accounts created under divisions (G) and (H) of this section, the drinking water assistance fund may include any other accounts established by the director ...

...oses of this section. (B)(1) A public water system shall demonstrate the technical, managerial, and financial capability of the system to comply with this chapter and rules adopted under it by implementing an asset management program not later than October 1, 2018. (2) Notwithstanding division (B)(1) of this section, the director may require a public water system to complete an asset management program prior to O...

...take possession of and operate a public water system that serves fewer than five hundred service connections only when conditions existing at the public water system present a threat to public health or welfare. However, division (A)(1) of this section does not apply to a system owned and operated by a public entity or a system regulated by the public utilities commission. (2) The director shall include all of th...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Water supplier" means an entity that is subject to this chapter and rules adopted under it and that supplies drinking water through pipes, through tubing, or in a similar manner to consumers within this state. (2) "Acquiring water supplier" means a water supplier that satisfies both of the following: (a) The water supplier acquires ownership of an existing water supplier. (b) The...

...ndustrial waste, or other wastes in any waters of the state. (B) "Sewage" means any liquid waste containing sludge, sludge materials, or animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and may include household wastes as commonly discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional, or similar facilities. (C) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any ...

...ent of new or existing pollution of the waters of the state; (B) Advise, consult, and cooperate with other agencies of the state, the federal government, other states, and interstate agencies and with affected groups, political subdivisions, and industries in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter. Before adopting, amending, or rescinding a standard or rule pursuant to division (G) of this section or section 6...

...(A) There is hereby created the water pollution control loan fund to provide financial, technical, and administrative assistance as follows: (1) For the construction of publicly owned wastewater treatment works, as "construction" and "treatment works" are defined in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, by municipal corporations, other political subdivisions, state agencies, and interstate agencie...

...ation where they cause pollution of any waters of the state. (2) Such an action prohibited under division (A)(1) of this section is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. Divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply if the person causing pollution or placing or causing to be placed wastes in a location in which they cause pollution of any waters of the state holds a valid, unexpired permit, or renewal of...

...egradation 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. Not later than March 31, 1994,...

...(A) Applications for a section 401 water quality certification required under division (O) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code shall be submitted on forms provided by the director of environmental protection and shall include all information required 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...

...The following Ohio river valley water sanitation compact, which has been negotiated by representatives of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia, is hereby approved, ratified, adopted, enacted into law, and entered into by the state of Ohio as a party thereto and signatory state, namely: OHIO RIVER VALLEY WATER SANITATION COMPACT Whereas, A substantial...

...sts in real estate. (2) "Drainage" or "waters" means flows from rainfall or otherwise produced by, or resulting from, the elements, storm water discharges and releases or migrations of waters from properties, accumulations, flows, and overflows of water, including accelerated flows and runoffs, flooding and threats of flooding of properties and structures, and other surface and subsurface drainage. (3) "Drain...

...ion for the organization of a regional water and sewer district is filed. (B) "Political subdivision" includes departments, divisions, authorities, or other units of state governments, watershed districts, soil and water conservation districts, park districts, municipal corporations, counties, townships, and other political subdivisions, special water districts, including county and regional water and sew...

...of common pleas organizing the regional water and sewer district pursuant to section 6119.04 of the Revised Code and upon the qualifying of its board of trustees and the election of a president and a secretary, said district shall exercise in its own name all the rights, powers, and duties vested in it by Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, and, subject to such reservations, limitations and qualifications as are set f...

...A regional water and sewer district may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges, including penalties for late payment, for the use or services of any water resource project or any benefit conferred thereby and contract in the manner provided by this section with one or more persons, one or more political subdivisions, or any combination thereof, desiring the use or services thereof, and fix the terms, con...

...r: (A) "Beneficial use" means a use of water, including the method of diversion, storage, transportation, treatment, and application, that is reasonable and consistent with the public interest in the proper utilization of water resources, including, without limitation, domestic, agricultural, industrial, power, municipal, navigational, fish and wildlife, and recreational uses. (B) "Governmental agencies" means depa...

...tate through the operations of the Ohio water development authority under this chapter to contribute toward one or more of the following: (1) To preserve, protect, upgrade, conserve, develop, utilize, and manage the water resources of the state; (2) To prevent or abate the pollution of water resources; (3) To promote the beneficial use of waters of the state for the protection and preservation of the public he...

...The Ohio water development authority may do any or all of the following: (A) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (B) Adopt an official seal; (C) Maintain a principal office and suboffices at places within the state that it designates; (D) Sue and plead in its own name and be sued and impleaded in its own name with respect to its contracts or torts of its members, em...

...default, by affecting the properties of waters of the state in a manner which renders such waters harmful or inimical to the public health, animal or aquatic life, or the use of such waters for domestic water supply, industrial or agricultural purposes, or for recreation, the director may request the Ohio water development authority to establish a waste water facilities service area for the purpose of eliminating suc...

...(A) The Ohio water development authority, from time to time, may issue water development revenue bonds and notes of the state in such principal amount as, in the opinion of the authority, are necessary for the purpose of paying any part of the cost of one or more water development projects or parts thereof. The authority, from time to time, may issue renewal notes, issue bonds to pay those notes, and whenever i...

...The Ohio water development authority may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges for the use or services of any water development project and contract in the manner provided by this section with one or more persons, one or more governmental agencies, or any combination thereof, desiring the use or services thereof, and fix the terms, conditions, rentals, or other charges for such use or services. Such ren...

...velopment, use, and conservation of the water sources of the great lakes basin (hereinafter called the basin); (B) To plan for the welfare and development of the water resources of the basin as a whole, as well as for those portions of the basin which may have problems of special concern; (C) To make it possible for the states of the basin and their people to derive the maximum benefit from utilization of public ...

...xpenses of conducting and managing the waterworks of a municipal corporation, including operating expenses and the costs of permanent improvements, the director of public service or any other city official or body authorized by charter may assess and collect a water rent or charge of sufficient amount and in such manner as the director, other official, or body determines to be most equitable from all tenements...

...ge" means to add from a point source to waters of the state. (H) "Federal Water Pollution Control Act" means the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972," 86 Stat. 816, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et. seq., as amended, and regulations adopted under it. (I) "Finalized," with respect to the programs required under division (A)(1) of section 903.02 and division (A)(1) of section 903.03 of the Revised Code, means th...