Ohio Code 6109.30 – Drinking water protection fund
(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the drinking water protection fund, which shall be administered by the director of environmental protection. The fund shall consist of moneys distributed to it and shall be used for all of the following purposes:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 6109.30
- director: includes an authorized representative of the director. See Ohio Code 6109.01
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Public water system: includes any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the operator of the system and used primarily in connection with the system, any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control that are used primarily in connection with the system, and any water supply system serving an agricultural labor camp as defined in section 3733. See Ohio Code 6109.01
- Safe Drinking Water Act: means the "Safe Drinking Water Act" 88 Stat. See Ohio Code 6109.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Technical assistance: means nonfinancial assistance provided by the state to public water systems and other eligible applicants, including, without limitation, assistance for planning and design, development, and implementation of source water quality protection programs; locating alternative supplies of drinking water; operational training; restructuring or consolidation of small systems; providing treatment information in order to assist compliance with a national primary drinking water standard; and other nonfinancial assistance authorized by the requirements governing the funds established under this chapter. See Ohio Code 6109.01
(1) Administration of this chapter and rules adopted under it;
(2) Administration in this state of the Safe Drinking Water Act;
(3) Provision of technical assistance to public water systems in this state for the purposes of this chapter and rules adopted under it;
(4) Special studies conducted by the director for the monitoring and testing of drinking water quality in this state;
(5) Support of programs for the prevention of contamination of surface and ground water supplies in this state that are sources of drinking water.
(B) The director may expend not more than two hundred thousand dollars from the fund in each fiscal year for the purpose of making loans to owners and operators of public water systems for emergency remediation of threats of contamination to public water supplies. The director shall not loan more than twenty-five thousand dollars to the owner or operator of any single public water system. The director shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules in accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code establishing application procedures and requirements for those loans. The rules shall require that an owner or operator receiving a loan under this division repay the loan to the fund not later than twelve months after receiving it.