Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-40 - Sewage Sludge › Section 3745-40-08 - Requirements for the beneficial use of biosolids: general requirements, prohibitions, isolation distance requirements, site specific requirements, and additional site restrictions for the beneficial use of class B biosolids

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
[Comment: For dates of non-regulatory
				government publications, publications of recognized organizations and
				associations, federal rules and federal statutory provisions referenced in this
				rule, see rule
				3745-40-01 of the
				Administrative Code.]
(A)
								General requirements.
(1)
									Any biosolids
			 distributed for beneficial use (e.g.for landscaping or gardening) shall be
			 exceptional quality biosolids, as defined in rule
			 3745-40-04
			 of the Administrative Code.
(2)
									Except as
			 provided in paragraphs (A)(3) and (A)(7) of this rule, class B or bulk
			 exceptional quality biosolids shall be beneficially used at the calculated
			 agronomic rate at a beneficial use site. The agronomic rate shall be calculated
			 prior to beneficial use and be the most limiting factor derived from the
			 following:
(a)
										For soils with soil phosphorus test results less than or
			 equal to forty parts per million Bray-Kurtz P1 extraction or fifty-eight parts
			 per million Mehlich III extraction, the most limiting factor of the
			 following:
(i)
											The nitrogen agronomic rate.
(ii)
											A phosphate
			 beneficial use rate of two hundred fifty pounds per acre or
			 less.
(iii)
											A phosphate beneficial use rate between two hundred
			 fifty pounds per acre and five hundred pounds per acre if both of the following
			 criteria are met:
(a)
												No additional phosphate application shall be made at
			 the beneficial use site for a minimum of three calendar years.
(b)
												All biosolids are
			 injected or are incorporated within twenty-four hours of beneficial
			 use.
(b)
										For soils with soil phosphorus test results greater
			 than forty parts per million Bray-Kurtz P1 extraction or fifty-eight parts per
			 million Mehlich III extraction and less than or equal to one hundred parts per
			 million Bray-Kurtz P1 extraction or one hundred thirty parts per million
			 Mehlich III extraction, the most limiting factor of the following:
(i)
											The nitrogen
			 agronomic rate.
(ii)
											A multi-year phosphate agronomic
			 rate.
(c)
										For soils with soil phosphorus test results greater
			 than one hundred parts per million Bray-Kurtz P1 extraction or one hundred
			 thirty parts per million Mehlich III extraction, beneficial use shall be
			 completed in accordance with the phosphorus index.
(3)
									For all
			 beneficial use sites, beneficial use of class B or bulk exceptional quality
			 biosolids may be completed in accordance with the phosphorus index.
(4)
									Except
			 as provided in paragraph (A)(2)(a)(iii) of this rule, the phosphate agronomic
			 rate shall be limited to two hundred fifty pounds per acre.
(5)
									For all
			 beneficial use sites, the agronomic rate calculations shall include all sources
			 of nitrogen and phosphate such as commercial fertilizer or manure in addition
			 to class B or bulk exceptional quality biosolids.
(6)
									Special
			 requirement regarding liquid class B or liquid bulk exceptional quality
			 biosolids. The beneficial use of liquid class B or bulk exceptional quality
			 biosolids shall be at or below the agronomic rate for the reasonably expected
			 yield goal of planned crops or crop rotation, or at or below the available
			 water capacity of the upper eight inches of soil, whichever is less at the time
			 of beneficial use.
(7)
									Special requirement regarding land reclamation sites.
			 The agronomic rate may be exceeded during land reclamation projects using
			 biosolids provided the beneficial use is in accordance with paragraph (B) of
			 rule
			 3745-40-03
			 of the Administrative Code.