3734.31 Inspecting and monitoring facilities.
3734.31 Inspecting and monitoring facilities.
(A) The director of environmental protection shall employ and equip such individuals as are needed to adequately and regularly inspect and monitor operating hazardous waste facilities, infectious waste treatment facilities, or solid waste facilities located off the premises where hazardous waste, infectious waste, or solid waste is generated.
(B) The director may employ and equip such individuals as are necessary to inspect and monitor operating hazardous waste facilities, infectious waste treatment facilities, or solid waste facilities other than those described in division (A) of this section.
(C)(1) As used in division (C)(2) of this section:
(a) “Commercial hazardous waste landfill” means a disposal facility or part of a facility whose primary business activity is the placement in or on land of hazardous waste that is generated off the premises on which the landfill is located by any person other than the one who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the person who owns or operates the landfill. “Commercial hazardous waste landfill” does not include a pile, land treatment facility, surface impoundment, underground injection well, salt dome formation, salt bed formation, underground mine, or cave.
(b) “Commercial hazardous waste underground injection well” means a bored, drilled, or driven hole, or a dug well whose depth is greater than its largest surface dimension, whose primary business activity is the subsurface emplacement of hazardous waste fluids that are generated off the premises on which the underground injection well is located by any person other than the one who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the person who owns or operates the underground injection well.
(c) “Commercial hazardous waste incinerator” means an enclosed device that treats hazardous waste by means of controlled flame combustion and whose primary business activity is the acceptance for treatment of hazardous waste that is generated off the premises on which the device is located by any person other than the one who owns or operates the device or the one who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the person who owns or operates the device.
(d) “Commercial hazardous waste facility” includes a commercial hazardous waste landfill, commercial hazardous waste underground injection well, and commercial hazardous waste incinerator.
(2) The director may employ and equip one qualified individual or may utilize proven and universally accepted technology to perform ongoing on-site inspection and monitoring functions at each operating commercial hazardous waste facility. The director may recover the actual and reasonable costs incurred by the environmental protection agency for maintaining qualified agency personnel on-site to perform such inspection and monitoring functions at the facility. The director may negotiate with the owner or operator of a facility for the placement of additional on-site inspectors at the facility and for the recovery of the costs incurred by the agency for maintaining those inspectors at the facility.
Costs incurred by the agency under this division are recoverable quarterly. Moneys recovered by the agency pursuant to this division shall be credited to the hazardous waste facility management fund created in section 3734.18 of the Revised Code.
Effective Date: 07-01-1993