(A) No person shall establish a new
facility or modify an existing facility without first obtaining a permit to
install for the facility or modification, as appropriate, issued in accordance
with this chapter.
(B) An applicant shall submit a permit to install application to
the director that contains at a minimum the following:
(1) Plan sheets in accordance with
paragraph (D) of this rule and a narrative report in accordance with paragraph
(E) of this rule. Detail engineering plans, specifications, and information as
specified in this rule shall be sufficiently detailed to allow for technical
review of the permit application and to provide assurance that the facility is
designed and will be constructed, operated, and closed in accordance with this
chapter.
(2) A written statement from each person
who holds title to the land on which the facility is or will be located that
each titleholder acknowledges that the applicant is submitting a permit to
install application and may use the land for the purpose of establishing or
operating a facility.
(3) Copies of the letters of intent
mailed in accordance with paragraph (F)(5) of this rule.
(4) A certification statement and
signature in accordance with rule 3745-500-50 of the Administrative
Code.
(C) The applicant shall submit the initial application and any
subsequent revisions to the director and board of health where the facility is
or will be located. Upon written request from Ohio EPA, the applicant shall
submit additional and identically complete copies of the revised application to
the director.
(D) Detail engineering plans, specifications, and information for
the facility shall be shown on plan sheets by means of drawings and narrative
descriptions where appropriate and be signed and sealed by a professional
engineer. At a minimum, the detail engineering plans, specifications, and
information shall be on plan drawings with minimum dimensions of twenty-four
inches by thirty-six inches and include the following:
(1) A cover sheet,
numbered sheet 1, that contains the following information:
(a) The name of the facility.
(b) A statement identifying whether the facility is or will be a
solid waste incinerator facility or solid waste energy recovery
facility.
(c) The precise geographic location and boundary of the facility,
shown on a map.
(d) The name, address, and telephone number of both the applicant
and the facility operator.
(e) The name and address of each owner of the land to be used for
the facility.
(f) The name and address of the person who prepared the
plans.
(g) An index of the plan sheets.
(2) Plan sheets, numbered
consecutively as sheets 2A, 2B, 2C, etc. that contain information specified in
an individual subheading on the same plan drawing. An individual plan drawing
may contain information specified in more than one individual subheading. The
plan drawings shall show the following items located within the facility
boundary and the following items located within five hundred feet of the
facility boundary with a scale of one inch equals no greater than one hundred
feet, unless another scale is specified:
(a) The property lines of land owned or leased for the facility
as determined by a property survey conducted by a professional surveyor as
evidenced by the signature and seal of the professional surveyor.
(b) All public roads, railroads, and occupied
structures.
(c) Existing topography showing vegetation and surface waters of
the state with a contour interval no greater than five feet.
(d) The north arrow.
(e) All existing land uses, zoning classifications, property
owners, political subdivisions, and communities.
(f) All existing domiciles.
(g) The limits of the regulatory floodplain.
(h) Parks, state nature preserves, state wildlife areas, national
and state scenic rivers, any national wildlife refuge, special interest areas,
research natural areas in the Wayne national forest, and state resource waters,
coldwater habitats, and exceptional warmwater habitats.
(3) Plan sheets, numbered
consecutively as sheets 3A, 3B, 3C, etc. that contain information specified in
an individual subheading on the same plan drawing. An individual plan drawing
may contain information specified in more than one individual subheading. The
plan drawings shall show the following items located within the facility
boundary and the following items located within two hundred fifty feet of the
facility boundary with a scale of one inch equals no greater than fifty feet,
unless another scale is specified:
(a) The location of all existing or proposed waste handling
areas, areas designated for recycling activities, maintenance buildings,
weighing facilities, storage buildings, and occupied structures.
(b) The location of existing or proposed utilities including
water, sewerage and sewage treatment, electricity, gas, and telephone or other
utility company easements on or bordering the facility.
(c) The location of all existing and proposed fencing, gates, and
natural or other screening on the facility. Contour intervals need not be
delineated if such locations are shown on an aerial photograph.
(d) Existing and proposed constructed topography of the facility
with contour lines at an interval no greater than five feet.
(4) Plan sheets, numbered
consecutively as sheets 4A, 4B, 4C, etc. that contain surface water drainage
information and indicate the vertical and horizontal scales used on plan
drawings. The plan drawings shall show the following items located within the
facility boundary and within five hundred feet of the facility
boundary:
(a) The existing direction of flow and points of concentration of
all surface waters.
(b) Drainage plans that show the following:
(i) Grades.
(ii) Natural swales and
streams and existing or proposed diversion trenches.
(iii) Any special
drainage devices to be used for control of surface erosion.
(5) Plan sheets, numbered
consecutively as sheets 5A, 5B, 5C, etc. that show the following:
(a) The location of incinerator and energy recovery
equipment.
(b) The location of associated equipment including waste
processing, waste feed, ash removal, and air pollution control
systems.
(c) The location of on-site solid waste handling areas, including
areas designated for recycling activities and ash handling areas.
(d) The direction of prevailing winds during each
season.
(e) Traffic patterns, including on-site and access
roads.
(f) Cross sections of all surfaces and structures on or in which
solid wastes will be placed prior to or during handling that describe the
methods and materials proposed for construction of each surface and structure
and that are drawn at an interval of not less than fifty feet.
(6) For a facility that
is proposing to treat infectious waste, in addition to the specifications of
paragraphs (D)(1) to (D)(5) of this rule, plan sheets with plan drawings that
clearly delineate all infectious waste handling areas and show the
following:
(a) The distance between the infectious waste handling area and
the property line of the premises where the facility will be
located.
(b) All domiciles, schools, jails, and prisons located within one
thousand feet of the infectious waste handling area.
(E) Narrative report. The following information shall be
presented in narrative form and signed and sealed by a professional
engineer:
(1) A summary of the site
environs and an explanation of how the facility will meet the criteria for
approval specified in rule 3745-550-350 of the Administrative
Code.
(2) A discussion of the
following:
(a) The equipment to be used in the operation and maintenance of
the facility including the following:
(i) The types of vehicles
that will be used to deliver, handle, and remove wastes, including
ash.
(ii) The performance
capabilities, the waste processing rate if applicable, and the principal
specifications of each piece of powered equipment to be used for loading,
unloading, handling, or processing of wastes, including charging and ash
removal.
(iii) The capacity and
type of each container to be used to store wastes, including the ash and
recycled materials.
(b) The proposed hours of operation.
(3) A discussion of the
following operational information:
(a) The AMDWR requested for the facility.
(b) The order of the facility's operations and the methods
and processing rates for conducting all activities including but not limited to
unloading, loading, sorting, handling, storage, compacting, baling, shredding,
and crushing; processing rates and order of operations; charging and operation;
ash removal procedures; operational methods used to handle bulky or dusty
materials; and any other processing operations.
(c) Traffic patterns at the facility.
(d) Inspection procedures to prevent accepting prohibited wastes
and wastes that may present operational problems.
(e) The following control measures:
(i) The collection,
containment, removal, and disposal of leachate, and methods to prevent leachate
from entering surface or ground waters.
(ii) Methods to prevent
precipitation; surface waters; and birds, insects, rodents, and other vectors
from reaching wastes on site.
(iii) Measures to control
fire, explosion, dust, odor, scavenging, erosion, and blowing
litter.
(f) Recycling procedures to be conducted on site, if
any.
(4) The following
plans:
(a) Ash management plans that comply with applicable state and
federal testing, analysis, and management requirements.
(b) A final closure plan that at a minimum meets the requirements
for final closure specified in rule 3745-550-700 of the Administrative Code and
contains the following information:
(i) A schedule and
description of the steps necessary to close the facility in accordance with
rule 3745-550-700 of the Administrative Code.
(ii) The name, address,
and telephone number of the person to contact regarding the facility during the
final closure period.
(5) The following
financial assurance information:
(a) The closure cost estimate that includes the cost of removal
and disposal of waste, including ash, based on the maximum amount of waste that
can be stored in the waste handling area.
(b) The estimated cost of removal and disposal of
leachate.
(c) The estimated cost of compliance with the closure
requirements in rule 3745-550-700 of the Administrative Code.
(d) For establishment of a facility or a modification pursuant to
paragraph (M)(2) of rule 3745-550-02 of the Administrative Code, a draft of the
final closure financial assurance instrument to be executed and funded prior to
waste acceptance.
(e) Financial assurance information as specified in Chapter
3745-503 of the Administrative Code.
(F) Concurrent to submitting the permit to install application,
the applicant shall also do the following:
(1) Submit to the
director the nonrefundable application fee as established in Chapter 3734. of
the Revised Code.
(2) Apply for a license
from the licensing authority.
(3) Submit a disclosure statement to the
director and to the attorney general's office as specified in rules
109:6-1-01 to 109:6-1-04 of the Administrative Code.
(4) Submit written notification of intent
to site a solid waste incinerator facility or solid waste energy recovery
facility to the Ohio EPA division of air pollution control and the Ohio EPA
division of surface water and a written request for information pertaining to
any regulatory requirements under Chapter 3704. or 6111. of the Revised
Code.
(5) Mail letters of intent via certified
mail or any other form of mail accompanied by a receipt that describe the
intended establishment or modification of a facility and include a description
of property and facility boundaries to the following entities:
(a) The governments of the general purpose political subdivisions
where the facility is or will be located including but not limited to local
health departments, county commissioners, and the legislative authority of a
municipal corporation or the board of township trustees.
(b) The single or joint county solid waste management district in
which the facility is or will be located.
(c) The owner or lessee of any easement or right of way bordering
or within the proposed facility boundaries.
(d) The local zoning authority having jurisdiction.
(e) The local air pollution planning authority having
jurisdiction.
(f) The park system administrator, if any part of the facility is
or will be located within or shares the park boundary.
(g) The conservancy district, if any part of the facility is or
will be located within or shares the conservancy district
boundary.
(h) The fire department having responsibility for providing fire
control services where the facility is or will be located.
(G) If the director determines that additional information is
necessary, the applicant shall supply such information as a precondition to
further consideration of the permit to install application.
