Ohio

HB 147 
(Amending Ohio Revised Code Section 611) -

1992





P2 Objective: To promote source reduction by requiring Class I injection

well facilities to engage in waste planning.

Numeric Goal: None specified.

Assistance Offered: None.

Reporting Requirements: Waste Minimization and Treatment Plans, Executive

Summary. 

Incentives: None.

Funding: None specified.

Contact: Anthony Sasson, Office of Pollution Prevention
Ohio Environmental

Protection Agency
P.O. Box 1049
Columbus, OH 43216-1049
Phone:

614/644-2810 

E-mail:

anthony_sasson@central.epa.ohio.gov



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Definitions


Source reduction -- Any practice that reduces the amount of any industrial waste or

other wastes entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment, including

fugitive emissions, prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal and that reduces the hazards to

public

health and the environment associated with the release of such wastes.  This includes equipment

or technology modifications, process or procedure modification, reformulation or redesign of

products, substitution of raw materials and improvements in housekeeping, maintenance,

training,

or inventory control.  This does not include practices that alter the physical, chemical, or

biological characteristics of the volume of an industrial waste or other wastes through process or

activity tat is not integral to and necessary for the production of product or the providing of

service.


Waste minimization -- Any effort to reduce or recycle he quantity of waste generated

and, when feasible, to reduce or eliminate toxicity.  This does not include treatment unless the

treatment is part of the recycling process.

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