(A)
(A)(1) "Abandoned well"
means a well whose use has been permanently discontinued or that is in a state
of disrepair such that it cannot be used for its intended purpose or for
observation purposes.
(B)
(2) "Application"
means the Ohio EPA standard forms for applying for a permit, including any
additions, revisions or modifications to the forms; or forms approved by Ohio
EPA, including any approved modifications or revisions. For a Class I hazardous
waste facility, application also includes the information already required by
the
direction
director under section
3734.05 of the Revised
Code.
(C)
(3) "Appropriate act and regulations" means the Solid
Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA) or Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), whichever is applicable; Chapter
3734. of the Revised Code and sections
6111.043 and
6111.044 of the Revised Code and
all rules promulgated thereunder.
(D)
(4) "Aquifer"
means a geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation that is
capable of yielding a significant amount of water to a well or
spring.
(E)
(5) "Area of review" means the area surrounding an
injection well described according to the criteria set forth in rule
3745-34-32 of the
Administrative Code, or in the case of an area permit, the project area plus a
circumscribing area of a width that is either one-quarter of a mile or a number
calculated according to the criteria set forth in rule
3745-34-32 of the
Administrative Code.
(C)
(F)(1) "Casing" means a pipe or tubing of
appropriate material, of varying diameter and weight, lowered into a borehole
during or after drilling in order to support the sides of the hole and thus
prevent the walls from caving, to prevent loss of drilling mud into porous
ground, or to prevent water, gas, or other fluid from entering or leaving the
hole.
(G)
(2) "Catastrophic collapse" means the sudden and utter
failure of overlying strata caused by removal of underlying
materials.
(H)
(3) "Cementing" means the operation whereby a cement
slurry is pumped into a drilled hole
and/or
or forced behind the
casing.
(I)
(4) "Cesspool" means a "well" other than a "septic
system" or a "subsurface fluid distribution system" that receives untreated
sanitary waste containing human excreta, and which sometimes has an open bottom
and/or
or
perforated sides.
(J)
(5) "Cone of influence" means that area around the
well within which increased injection zone pressure caused by injection into
the hazardous waste injection well would be sufficient to drive fluids into an
underground source of drinking water (USDW).
(K)
(6) "Confining
bed" means a body of impermeable or distinctly less permeable material
stratigraphically adjacent to one or more aquifers.
(L)
(7) "Confining
zone" means a geological formation, group of formations, or part of a formation
that is capable of limiting fluid movement above an injection zone.
(M)
(8)
"Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological
substance or matter in water.
(N)
(9) "Conventional
mine" means an open pit or underground excavation for the production of
minerals.
(D)
(O)(1) "Director"
means the director of the Ohio EPA or the director's duly authorized
representative.
(P)
(2) "Disposal well" means a well used for the disposal
of waste into a subsurface formation.
(Q)
(3) "Draft
permit" means a draft action as provided in rule
3745-47-05
3745-49-02
of the Administrative Code.
(R)
(4) "Drilling mud"
means a heavy suspension used in drilling an injection well, introduced down
the drill pipe and through the drill bit.
(S)
(5) "Drywell"
means a well, other than an improved sinkhole or subsurface fluid distribution
system, completed above the water table so its bottom and sides are typically
dry except when receiving fluids
(E)
(T)
(1) "Effective date of a UIC program"
means the date that a state of Ohio UIC program is approved or established by
the United States environmental protection agency.
(U)
(2) "Emergency
permit" means a UIC permit issued in accordance with rule
3745-34-19 of
the Administrative Code.
(V)
(3) "Exempted aquifer" means an aquifer
or its portion that meets the criteria in the definition of underground source
of drinking water but that has been exempted according to the procedures in
40
CFR
144.7.
(W)
(4)
"Experimental technology" means a technology that has not been proven feasible
under the conditions that are being tested.
(F)
(X)(1) "Facility" or
"activity" means any hazardous waste facility as defined in section
3734.01 of the Revised Code, UIC
injection well, or any other facility or activity (including land or
appurtenances thereto) that is subject to regulation under Chapter 3734. or
6111. of the Revised Code and all rules promulgated thereunder.
(Y)
(2)
"Fault" means a surface or zone of rock fracture along which there has been
displacement.
(3)
"Federal Water Pollution Control Act" or "FWPCA" means
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 86 Stat. 816 (1972), 33 U.S.C.
1251-1387, as amended through 1987.
(Z)
(4) "Flow
rate" means the volume per time unit given to the flow of gases or other fluid
substance that emerges from an orifice, pump, turbine, or passes along a
conduit or channel.
(AA)
(5) "Fluid" means
material or substance that flows or moves whether in a semisolid, liquid,
sludge, gas, or any other form or state.
(BB)
(6)
"Formation" means a body of rock characterized by a degree of lithologic
homogeneity that is prevailingly, but not necessarily, tabular and is mappable
on the earth's surface or traceable in the subsurface.
(CC)
(7)
"Formation fluid" means fluid present in a formation under natural conditions
as opposed to introduced fluids, such as drilling mud.
(G)
(DD)(1) "Generator" means any person, by site
location, whose act or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in
Chapter 3745-51 of the Administrative Code.
(EE)
(2) "Ground
water" means water below the land surface in a zone of saturation
(H)
(FF)
(1)
"Hazardous waste" means a hazardous waste as defined in rule
3745-51-03
of the Administrative Code.
(GG)
(2) "Hazardous waste management facility
(HWM Facility)"
or
"HWM facility" means all contiguous land, structures, other
appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for treating, storing, or
disposing of hazardous waste. A facility may consist of several treatment,
storage, or disposal operational units (for example, one or more landfills,
surface impoundments, or combination of them).
(HH) "HWM facility" means hazardous
waste management facility.
(I)
(II)(1) "Improved sinkhole" means a naturally
occurring karst depression or other geologic setting which has been modified by
man for the purpose of directing and emplacing fluids into the
subsurface.
(JJ)
(2) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or
solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, manufacture,
trade, or business, or from the development, processing, or recovery of any
natural resource, together with such sewage as is present.
(KK)
(3)
"Injection interval" means that part of the injection zone in which the well is
screened, perforated or in which the waste is otherwise directly
emplaced.
(LL)
(4) "Injection well" means a well into which fluids
are being injected.
(MM)
(5) "Injection zone" means a geological
formation, group of formations, or part of a formation receiving fluids through
a well.
(NN)
(6) "Innovative technology" means any proposed
innovative and experimental hazardous or industrial waste treatment technology
or process for which research and development are necessary to establish
technical or operational validity.
(L)
(OO)(1) "Large capacity cesspool" means a
multiple dwelling, community or regional cesspools, or other devices that
receive sanitary wastes, containing human excreta that have an open bottom and
sometimes have perforated sides. The UIC requirements do not apply to
single-family residential cesspools nor to non-residential cesspools that
receive solely sanitary wastes and have the capacity to serve fewer than twenty
persons per day.
(PP)
(2) "Lithology" means the description of rocks on the
basis of their physical and chemical characteristics.
(M)
(QQ)(1)"Manifest" means the shipping document
originated and signed by the generator which contains the information required
by Chapter 3745-52 of the Administrative Code.
(RR)
(2) "Motor
vehicle waste disposal well" means a well that has the potential to receive,
receives, or has received fluids from vehicular repair or maintenance
activities, such as an auto body repair shop, automotive repair shop, new and
used car dealership, specialty repair shop (e.g. transmission and muffler
repair shop), or any facility that does any vehicular repair work. Fluids
disposed in these wells may contain organic and inorganic chemicals in
concentrations that exceed the maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) established by
the primary drinking water regulations. These fluids also may include waste
petroleum products and may contain contaminants, such as heavy metals and
volatile organic compounds, which pose risks to human health, safety or the
environment.
(O)
(SS)(1) "Other wastes" means garbage, refuse,
decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, and other wood debris, lime, sand,
ashes, offal, night soil, oil, tar, coal dust, dredged or fill material, or
silt, other substances that are not sewage, sludge, sludge materials, or
industrial waste, and any other "pollutants" or "toxic pollutants" as defined
in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act that are not sewage, sludge, sludge
materials, or industrial waste.
(TT)
(2) "Owner or operator" means the owner
or operator of any facility or activity subject to regulation under Chapters
3734. and 6111. of the Revised Code and all rules promulgated
thereunder.
(P)
(UU)
(1)
"Packer" means a device lowered into a well to produce a fluid-tight seal.
(VV)
(2) "Permit" means an authorization, license, or
equivalent document issued by Ohio EPA to implement the requirements of Chapter
6111. of the Revised Code. Permit does not include a draft permit, a permit
issued by the hazardous waste facility approval board under Chapter 3734. of
the Revised Code, or rule
3745-34-11 of the
Administrative Code.
(WW)
(3) "Person" means an individual,
association, partnership, the State of Ohio or any agency or employee thereof,
the federal government or any agency or employee thereof, any other state or
agency or employee thereof, any interstate agency, any municipal corporation,
political subdivision, public or private corporation, or other
entity.
(XX)
(4) "Plugging" means the act or process of stopping
the flow of water, oil or gas into or out of a formation through a borehole or
well penetrating that formation.
(YY)
(5) "Plugging
record" means a systematic listing of permanent or temporary abandonment of
water, oil, gas, test, exploration and waste injection wells, and may contain a
well log, description of amounts and types of plugging material used, the
method employed for plugging, a description of formations that are sealed and a
graphic log of the well showing formation location, formation thickness, and
location of plugging structures.
(ZZ)
(6) "Point of
injection" means the last accessible sampling point prior to waste fluids being
released into the subsurface environment through a class V injection well. For
example, the "point of injection" of a class V septic system might be the
distribution box, which would be the last accessible sampling point before the
waste fluids drain into the underlying soils. For a dry well, it is likely to
be the well bore itself.
(AAA)
(7) "POTW" or "publicly owned treatment
works" means any device or system used in the treatment (including recycling
and reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature
which is owned by a state or municipality. This definition includes sewers,
pipes, or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW providing
treatment.
(BBB)
(8) "Pressure" means the total load or force per unit
area acting on a surface.
(CCC)
(9) "Project" means a group of wells in
a single operation
(R)
(DDD)(1) "Radioactive waste" means any waste
that contains radioactive material in concentrations which exceed those listed
in 10 CFR Part
20, "Appendix B," Table II," column 2.
(2)
"Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act" or "RCRA" or "Solid Waste Disposal Act" means
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 90 Stat. 2795 (1976),
42 U.S.C.
6901, as amended through
2012.
(S)
(1)
"Safe Drinking
Water Act" or "SDWA" means Safe Drinking Water Act, 88 Stat. 1660 (1974),
42 U.S.C.
300(f), as amended through
1996.
(EEE)
(2) "Sanitary waste" means liquid or solid waste
originating solely from humans and human activities, such as wastes collected
from toilets, showers, wash basins, sinks used for cleaning domestic areas,
sinks used for food preparation, cloths washing operations, and sinks or
washing machines where food and beverage serving dishes, glasses, and utensils
are cleaned. Sources of these wastes may include single or multiple residences,
hotels and motels, restaurants, bunkhouses, schools, ranger stations, crew
quarters, guard stations, campgrounds, picnic grounds, day-use recreational
areas, other commercial facilities, and industrial facilities provided the
waste is not mixed with industrial waste.
(FFF)
(3)
"Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of remedial measures included in a
permit, including an enforceable sequence of interim requirements (for example,
actions, operations, or milestone events leading to compliance with the
appropriate act and regulations).
(GGG) "SDWA" means the Safe Drinking
Water Act ( P.L. 95-523, as amended by P.L. 96-502, 42 U.S.C. 300(f) et
seq.).
(HHH)
(4) "Septic system" means a "well" that
is used to emplace sanitary waste below the surface and is typically comprised
of a septic tank and subsurface fluid distribution system or disposal
system.
(III)
(5) "Sewage" means any liquid waste containing sludge,
sludge materials, or animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and
may include household wastes as commonly discharged from residences and from
commercial, institutional, or similar facilities.
(JJJ)
(6) "Site"
means the land or water area where any facility or activity is physically
located or conducted, including adjacent land used in connection with the
facility or activity.
(KKK)
(7) "Sole source aquifer" means any
aquifer which has been so designated by the administrator of the United States
environmental protection agency pursuant to section 1424 (a) or (e) of the
SDWA.
(LLL)
(8) "Stratum (plural strata)" means a single
sedimentary bed or layer, regardless of thickness, that consists of generally
the same kind of rock material.
(MMM)
(9) "Subsidence" means the lowering of
the natural land surface in response to: earth movement; lowering of fluid
pressure; removal or underlying supporting material by mining or solution of
solids, either artificially or from natural causes; compaction due to wetting
(hydrocompaction); oxidation of organic matter in soils; or added load on the
land surface.
(NNN)
(10) "Subsurface fluid distribution system" means an
assemblage of perforated pipes, drain tiles, or other similar mechanisms
intended to distribute fluids below the surface of the ground.
(OOO)
(11) "Surface casing" means the first string of well
casing to be installed in the well.
(T)
(PPP)(1) "Total dissolved solids (TDS)" means
the total dissolved (filterable) solids as specified in 40 CFR part
136.
(QQQ)
(2) "Transmissive fault or fracture" is a fault or
fracture that has sufficient permeability and vertical extent to allow fluids
to move between formations.
(U)
(RRR)(1) "UIC" means the underground
injection control program under part C of the Safe Drinking Water Act, or under
sections 6111.043 and
6111.044 of the Revised
Code.
(SSS)
(2) "Underground injection" means a well
injection.
(TTT)
(3) "Underground source of drinking water
(USDW)"
or
"USDW" means an aquifer or its portion
and is not
an exempted aquifer, which does one of the following:
(1)(a)
(a)(i)
That supplies
Supplies any public water system as defined by Chapter
3745-81 of the Administrative Code
; or
.
(b)
(ii)
That contains
Contains a sufficient quantity of ground water to
supply a public water system as defined by Chapter 3745-81 of the
Administrative Code
; and
is one of one following:
(i)(a) Currently
supplies drinking water for human consumption
;
or
.
(ii)(b) Contains
fewer than ten thousand mg/l total dissolved solids
; and
.
(2) That is not an exempted
aquifer.
(UUU) "USDW" means underground
source of drinking water.
(W)
(VVV)(1) "Well"
means
any one of the following:
(1)
(a) A bored,
drilled, or driven shaft whose depth is greater than the largest surface
dimension
; or
.
(2)
(b) A dug hole whose depth is greater than the largest
surface dimension
; or
.
(3)
(c) An improved sinkhole
; or
.
(4)
(d) A subsurface fluid distribution system as defined
in this rule.
(WWW)
(2) "Well injection" means the
subsurface emplacement of fluids through a well.
(XXX)
(3) "Well
plug" means a watertight and gastight seal installed in a borehole or well to
prevent movement of fluids.
(YYY)
(4) "Well stimulation" means several
processes used to clean the well bore, enlarge channels, and increase pore
space in the interval to be injected, thus making it possible for wastewater to
move more readily into the formation, and includes (1) surging, (2) jetting,
(3) blasting, (4) acidizing, and (5) hydraulic fracturing.
(ZZZ)
(5) "Well
monitoring" means the measurement, by on-site instruments or laboratory
methods, of the quality of water in a well.
(AAAA)
(6) "Well
work over" means any work performed on a class I injection well which involves
maintenance, repair or removal and reinstallation of injection tubing
string.
(Z)
[Reserved.]
[Comment: This rule references the
following "Code of Federal Regulations or CFR and United States Code or
U.S.C.":
40
CFR 144.7, last amended December 10, 2010; 10
CFR Part 20, last amended September 30, 2015; 40 CFR Part 136, last amended
August 19, 2014. This rule also references the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act, 90 Stat. 2795 (1976),
42 U.S.C.
6901, as amended through 2012. Also, this
rule references the following sections and part of the Safe Drinking Water Act
(SDWA), as amended through 1996: Section 1424 (a) or (e) and Part C of the
SDWA. Copies of these codes may be obtained from the "U.S. Government
Bookstore" toll-free at (866) 512-1800 or https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys , or from
"Ohio EPA, Lazarus Government Center, 50 West Town Street, Suite 700, Columbus,
OH, 43215," (614) 644-2752. The codes are available for review at "Ohio EPA,
Lazarus Government Center, 50 West Town Street, Suite 700, Columbus, OH,
43215."]