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... As used in this chapter: (A) "Board of health" means the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health in any city as authorized by section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (B) "Director" means the director of environmental protection. (C) "Health district" means a city or general health district as created by or under authority of Chapter 3709. of ...

... (A) The director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and may amend, suspend, or rescind rules having uniform application throughout the state governing solid waste facilities and the inspections of and issuance of permits and licenses for all solid waste facilities in order to ensure that the facilities will be located, maintained, and operated, and will unde...

... (A) Infectious wastes shall be segregated, managed, treated, and disposed of in accordance with rules adopted under this section. (B) The director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules necessary or appropriate to protect human health or safety or the environment that do both of the following: (1) Establish standards for generators of infectious wast...

...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...

...(A) The director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and in consultation with the director of agriculture, shall adopt, and may amend, suspend, or rescind, rules establishing standards of quality for compost products produced by composting facilities subject to this chapter to ensure that the use of those products in accordance with accepted agricultural or horticultural p...

...(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...

...(A) The owner or operator holding a license issued under division (A) of section 3734.05 of the Revised Code for a sanitary landfill that is so situated that a residence or other occupied structure off the premises of the landfill is located within one thousand feet horizontal distance from the exterior boundary of the landfill, and the owner or operator of any closed landfill that is so situated and for which a lice...

...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)(1) Except as provided in divisions (A)(6) and (7) of this section, no person shall operate or maintain a solid waste facility without a license issued under this division by the board of health of the health district in which the facility is located or by the director of environmental protection when the health district in which the facility is located is not on the approved list under section 3734.08 of the Revi...

...(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 ...

...The board of health of a health district in which a solid waste facility or an infectious waste treatment facility is located, or the director of environmental protection, may suspend, revoke, or deny a license for the facility for violation of any section of this chapter or any rule adopted under it. The director may suspend, revoke, or deny a permit to operate any hazardous waste facility for violation of any secti...

...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 ord...

...(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...

... As used in this section, "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act" means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 90 Stat. 2806, 42 U.S.C. 6921, as amended. The director of environmental protection shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, which shall be consistent with and equivalent to the regulations adopted under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act except for ...