Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends regulations of Ohio's landfills, water systems and demolition sites.

Highlights:

• Authorizes the issuance of a single license governing both a construction and demolition debris facility and a processing facility located on the same property (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the open burning of construction debris on a construction site (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits establishing a processing facility or demolition site without a permit from the district’s board of health or the director of the state’s environmental protection agency (EPA) (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits building demolition sites or processing facilities within 500 feet of an occupied dwelling or 100 feet of a perennial stream (Sec. 1).

• Establishes regulatory oversight to decrease the amount of abandoned waste generated from construction and demolition sites (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the state’s EPA director, in lieu of the U.S. EPA, to issue a permit to an entity discharging into a privately owned treatment works (Sec. 1).

• Requires public water systems to demonstrate ongoing technical, financial and managerial capability by implementing an asset management program to ensure safe and reliable drinking water (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the state’s EPA director to appoint a receiver to take possession of a public water system serving fewer than 500 connections if its conditions present a threat to public health or welfare (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the Ohio EPA to evaluate and clean up abandoned landfills, gain site access, conduct investigations and take samples at these sites (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the state’s EPA director or an authorized representative to enter at reasonable times any private or public property to inspect and investigate conditions related to alleged noncompliance (Sec. 1).

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