Ohio Code 3750.081 – Compliance with filing requirements; access to database
(A) Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, an owner or operator of a facility that is regulated under Chapter 1509 of the Revised Code shall be deemed to have satisfied all of the inventory requirements established under this chapter, except for the release reporting requirements established under section 3750.06 of the Revised Code, by complying with the requirements established in section 1509.231 of the Revised Code.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3750.081
- Facility: means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items that are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and that are owned or operated by the same person or by any person who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such person. See Ohio Code 3750.01
- Fire department: means a fire department of a municipal corporation or township, a township fire district, a joint township fire district, a private fire company or volunteer fire company that has entered into an agreement for the use and operation of fire-fighting equipment with a municipal corporation, township, township fire district, or joint township fire district or, in a municipal corporation or township where no such fire department or district exists and no such agreement is in effect, the fire prevention officer of the municipal corporation or township. See Ohio Code 3750.01
- Local emergency planning committee: means the local emergency planning committee of an emergency planning district, joint emergency planning district, or joint interstate planning district established under section 3750. See Ohio Code 3750.01
- Oil: means oil of any kind or in any form including, without limitation, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil. See Ohio Code 3750.01
- Release: means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of into the environment, including, without limitation, the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles that contained any oil, hazardous chemical, hazardous substance, or extremely hazardous substance. See Ohio Code 3750.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) The emergency response commission and every local emergency planning committee and fire department in this state shall establish a means by which to access, view, and retrieve information from the electronic database maintained by the division of oil and gas resources management in the department of natural resources in accordance with section 1509.231 of the Revised Code. With respect to facilities regulated under Chapter 1509 of the Revised Code, the database shall be the means of providing and receiving the information described in division (A) of this section.