Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
Application. An application for a scrap tire
transporter registration certificate shall be made on forms prescribed by the
director and contain sufficient detail to allow clear understanding for
technical review of the application and to provide assurance that the scrap
tire transportation business can be operated in accordance with this chapter.
The application shall contain at a minimum the following:
(1)
The name,
address, email address, and telephone number for the following:
(a)
The scrap tire
transportation business including the primary business location and a listing
of all other locations where vehicles, trailers, or other portable containers
are routinely located for scrap tire transport, load consolidation, or other
storage. Portable containers that are prepositioned in accordance with
paragraph (B) of rule
3745-580-110 of the
Administrative Code do not need to be listed in the registration
application.
(b)
The owner or operator of the scrap tire transportation
business.
(c)
The emergency contact person who is authorized to
commit resources necessary for emergency response equipment, material, and
services.
(d)
The owner of the properties on which the applicant's
vehicles, trailers, or other portable containers identified in paragraph
(A)(1)(a) of this rule are routinely located. This does not include trailers
prepositioned in accordance with paragraph (B) of rule
3745-580-110 of the
Administrative Code.
(e)
The applicant.
(f)
If the applicant
is a political subdivision or government entity, the title and employer of the
official responsible for the scrap tire transporter.
(2)
The number of
scrap tire transporter registration certificates requested for the registration
year equal to the number of motor vehicles to be used to transport scrap tires
plus the number of locations identified in paragraph (A)(1)(a) of this
rule.
(3)
A letter of consent from the property owner giving
permission to the applicant to use the property for the scrap tire
transportation business, including the parcel number for each parcel identified
in the registration application.
(4)
For an initial
registration application, an executed financial assurance instrument prepared
in accordance with rule
3745-580-23 of the
Administrative Code and worded in accordance with rule
3745-580-24 of the
Administrative Code.
(5)
If applicable, certification that on the date the
registration application is received by Ohio EPA, the scrap tire transporter
sorting areas are in compliance with the siting criteria identified in
paragraphs (B)(4) and (B)(5) of rule
3745-580-103 of the
Administrative Code.
(6)
A non-refundable application fee as specified in
section 3734.83 of the Revised Code,
except as follows:
(a)
If the scrap tire transporter is also a motor vehicle
salvage dealer licensed in accordance with Chapter 4738. of the Revised Code,
the scrap tire transporter is excluded from the annual registration application
fee if both of the following apply:
(i)
All scrap tires transported are obtained as a direct
consequence of receiving motor vehicles for salvage.
(ii)
Scrap tires are
transported only on motor vehicles owned or leased by the motor vehicle salvage
dealer, which prominently display the name of the motor vehicle salvage
dealer's business.
(b)
If the scrap tire
transporter is also a retail tire dealer or retreader, the application fee is
fifty dollars provided scrap tires are transported only as a direct consequence
of the transporter's retail tire or retreading business.
(7)
A
certification statement and signature in accordance with rule
3745-500-50 of the
Administrative Code.
(B)
Additional
information for scrap tire transporters that are engaging in sorting, grading,
load consolidation, or temporary storage. If the scrap tire transporter is
proposing to remove scrap tires from the scrap tire transportation vehicles on
property owned or leased by the applicant for the purpose of grading, sorting,
reducing the size of the scrap tires for load consolidation purposes, or if the
scrap tires will remain in covered trailers or vehicles on the property for a
period of between seven and thirty days, the applicant shall provide the
following information:
(1)
A description of how the scrap tires will be handled
and stored.
(2)
Measures that will be taken to prevent scavenging and
theft.
(3)
A narrative description of the type and location of
permanent and portable equipment used for load consolidation.
(C)
A
scrap tire transporter who also owns or operates a business that meets the
exclusions contained in paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(3) of rule
3745-580-205 or
3745-580-305 of the
Administrative Code or paragraph (A)(2) of rule
3745-580-405 of the
Administrative Code on the same or adjacent property as the transporting
business shall include the following in a plan view drawing that has a scale of
one inch equals no greater than one hundred feet to delineate the activities
associated with the scrap tire transportation business and the scrap tire
handling and storage activities at the excluded business in the registration
application:
(1)
For the scrap tire transporter business, all scrap tire
storage areas and areas used for loading, unloading, load consolidation,
sorting, and grading of scrap tires.
(2)
For the business
specified in paragraph (A)(1) or (A)(3) of rule
3745-580-205 or
3745-580-305 of the
Administrative Code, all scrap tire storage areas.
(3)
For the
businesses specified in paragraph (A)(2) of rule
3745-580-205,
3745-580-305, or
3745-580-405 of the
Administrative Code, delineation of the following scrap tire storage
areas:
(a)
Scrap
tires that have been inspected and individually labeled or marked as suitable
for retreading.
(b)
Scrap tires that have been retreaded or
regrooved.
(c)
Scrap tires that cannot be retreaded or
regrooved.
(D)
If the director
determines that additional information is necessary to determine whether the
criteria set forth in rule
3745-580-103 of the
Administrative Code are satisfied, the applicant shall supply such information
as a precondition to further consideration of the application.
[Comment: Rule
3745-580-103 of the
Administrative Code states that an incomplete application may be a basis for
denial of a registration application.]
