Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-560 - Composting Facilities › Section 3745-560-300 - Class III composting facility establishment

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) No
			 person shall establish a new class III composting facility or continue to
			 operate an existing facility without first submitting a registration
			 application in accordance with this rule.
(B) Registration of class III composting
			 facility. A registration application shall include the following:
(1) Registration form prescribed by the
			 director including but not limited to business name, contact person including
			 the operator and property owner, contact information, location of the proposed
			 composting facility, and a statement certifying compliance with the siting
			 criteria specified in paragraph (C) of this rule.
(2) Plan view drawing, using a scale of one
			 inch equals no greater than one hundred feet, showing the following information
			 inside the facility boundaries and within five hundred feet beyond the facility
			 boundaries:
(a) The property lines of land
			 owned or leased for the composting facility.
(b) The boundary lines for the composting
			 facility.
(c) Public roads,
			 railroads, and structures.
(d)
			 Existing topography showing contours, streams, wetlands, lakes, springs, and
			 other surface waters of the state.
(e) The north arrow.
(f) Boundary lines for the materials
			 placement area based on the design capacity and the operational capacity, if
			 the operational capacity is different than the design capacity. The boundary
			 lines shall include the areas for each of the following:
(i) Composting and materials
			 processing.
(ii) Receiving and
			 storage of feedstocks, bulking agents, or additives.
(iii) Storage of alternative materials
			 authorized pursuant to rule
			 3745-560-305 of the
			 Administrative Code and the composting processing area dedicated to these
			 materials.
(iv) Storage of compost
			 product.
(g) Existing
			 occupied dwellings.
(h) Any
			 leachate management structure.
(i)
			 The limits of the one hundred year floodplain.
(j) National park or national recreation
			 areas, candidate areas for potential inclusion into the national park system,
			 and any state park or established state park purchase areas.
(k) Any state or Ohio history connection
			 nature preserves, state wildlife areas and national wildlife refuges, national
			 and state wild scenic and recreational rivers, special interest areas and
			 research natural areas in the Wayne national forest, state resource waters,
			 coldwater habitats, and exceptional warmwater habitats.
[Comment: Both the Ohio department of natural resources and the
				Ohio history connection, formerly the Ohio historical society, designate state
				nature preserves in Ohio.]
(l) Existing public water supply wells,
			 developed springs, or private potable water supply wells.
(m) Existing drainage sinkholes or
			 agricultural drainage wells.
(n)
			 The direction of the downward slopes and drainage for the materials placement
			 area.
(3) Calculation of
			 the design capacity of the composting facility.
(4) Calculation of the operational capacity
			 of the composting facility which shall be less than or equal to the design
			 capacity of the composting facility. Facilities accepting authorized
			 alternative materials upon initial registration shall also specify the maximum
			 capacity and area dedicated to alternative materials.
(5) Copies of consent letters pursuant to
			 paragraph (C) of this rule.
(6)
			 Copies of the letters of intent required in paragraph (D) of this
			 rule.