agreements.
(2)
Sanitary sewer
permits to install.
(1)
(a) The director may enter into an agreement with a
political subdivision
or investor-owned public
utility that owns or operates a disposal system
and that intends to extend its sewerage system,
which agreement
that authorizes a
qualified official, position or employee of the political subdivision
or investor-owned public utility, as determined
by the director, to review permit to install applications and plans for
the extension of the sewerage system
compliance with paragraph (B)(2)(b) of this
rule.
(2)
(b) Under such agreement, the qualified official,
position or employee of the political subdivision
or
investor-owned public utility may be authorized to review permit to
install applications and plans for sewerage system extensions or replacements
of gravity sewer lines less than or equal to eighteen inches in diameter and
force mains and pump stations with maximum design flows of less than or equal
to 2.0 million gallons per day. At a minimum, said qualified
person
official or
employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned public utility
shall be a registered professional engineer licensed to practice
engineering in the state of Ohio.
(3)
(c) In performing the
review of the permit to install application and plans as specified by the
agreement, the qualified official or employee of the political subdivision
or investor-owned public utility shall, at a
minimum, review the permit to install application and plans for conformance
with all applicable laws and
standard
generally accepted engineering
practices which pertain to the project
standards referenced in paragraph (A)(4) of this
rule.
(4)
(d) Under such agreement, the director shall outline
the various terms of the authorized review. These terms may include
geographical boundaries where review may occur, criteria for review,
timeframes, identification of qualified officials
or
employees of the political subdivision or investor-owned public utility
responsible for performing review and any other requirements deemed necessary
by the director.
(5)(e) Under such
agreement, the fees calculated in accordance with division
(C)
(B) of
section
3745.11 of the Revised Code and
a copy of the actual permit to install application shall be
immediately forwarded to
the Ohio EPA upon receipt by the political
subdivision
covered under an agreement under this
rule
or investor-owned public
utility.
(6)
(f)
Pursuant to an
agreement under this rule
Under such
agreement, the director shall issue the appropriate action
based upon
after
consideration of the recommendation
of the
certification signed by the qualified official
or employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned
public utility upon submission to the director of
the following:
(a)
(i) A recommendation
to the director to grant or deny the permit
to
install and approve or disapprove the plans
;
.
(b)
(ii)
A certification signed by the qualified official
or
employee that the permit to install application and plans meet or fail to
meet requirements of all applicable laws and
standard engineering practices;
generally accepted engineering standards.
(c)
(iii)
For approvals or denials, a prepared permit to install or denial package in
standard Ohio
environmental protection
agency
EPA format, complete except for
issuance and effective dates and the director's signature
; and
.
(d)
(iv)
The reviewed permit to install application and plans.
(7)
(g)
In the event that a project reviewed under such an agreement is appealed to the
environmental review appeals commission or an Ohio EPA hearing examiner, the
political subdivision
or investor-owned public
utility responsible for review shall provide necessary technical support
to the director.
(3)
Industrial user permits to install.
The director may authorize, in writing,
a municipal corporation, county, or special district that owns or operates a
disposal system that has an approved pretreatment program to review and take
final action on industrial permits to install for indirect discharges by
industrial users of its disposal system in accordance with the procedure in
rule
3745-3-03
of the Administrative Code.
[Comment: Unless the director has so
authorized the municipal corporation, county, or special district in writing to
act on the agency's behalf, a permit to install from Ohio EPA is required for
industrial user indirect discharges unless the project meets an exemption in
rule
3745-42-02
of the Administrative Code.]
(8) The director
may periodically audit the review performed by the political subdivision under
any agreement and may terminate the agreement for poor quality review, failure
to follow Ohio EPA criteria, policies, procedures and rules, or the loss of the
qualified official, position or employee.
(9) The term of any agreement under
this rule may be for a period of up to five years. The director and the
political subdivision may renew such agreement.
(10) Paragraph (F) of this rule in
no way supersedes any other statute or rules adopted under Chapter 6111. of the
Revised Code.
Table 1
Table 4-1. Identification of projects for which the
Ohio environmental protection agency
EPA division of surface water shall coordinate with
the Ohio environmental protection
agency
EPA divisions of
solid and infectious waste management
(DSIWM)
materials
and waste management (DMWM), air pollution control (DAPC) and drinking
and ground waters, ground water section (DDAGW) and/or
and their
respective successors.
|
- Project type
|
Coordinate with DSIWM
(DMWM)?
|
Coordinate with
DAPC?
|
Coordinate with
DDAGW?
|
|
Domestic sewage
Sewage
|
|
- Wastewater treatment plant - new or expanding
system
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
|
- Lagoon/impoundment
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
Yes
|
|
- Onsite sewage treatment
system (subsurface disposal
soil
based treatment) greater than one thousand gallons per day
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
Yes
|
|
Industrial/process
wastewater
waste
|
|
- Lagoon/impoundment
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
Yes
|
|
- Onsite sewage treatment
system (subsurface disposal
soil
based treatment)
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
Yes
|
|
- Wastewater treatment plant - new or expanding
system
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
|
Other project types
|
|
- Biosolids composting facility
|
Yes
|
As needed
|
As needed
|
|
- Exempted wastes "landfill" (fly ash, etc.)
|
As needed
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
- Biosolids monofill
|
As needed
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
- Leachate collection/treatment, sediment ponds, etc.
located at solid waste landfill
|
Yes
|
As needed
|
Yes
|
|
All other projects will be reviewed on a case-by-case
basis and may involve review under various program authorities at the
|
|
discretion of the director and/or
or
his
director's
authorized representatives.
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