Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-560 - Composting Facilities › Section 3745-560-400 - Class IV composting facility establishment

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) No person shall establish a new class IV
			 composting facility or continue to operate an existing facility without first
			 submitting a registration application in accordance with this rule.
(B) Registration of class IV 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
			 3745-560-405
			 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.