Scrap Tire Cleanup Assistance

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Scrap Tire Cleanup Assistance

• Under 5,000 Scrap Tire Agreements

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Scrap Tire Cleanup Assistance
Under 5,000 Scrap Tire Agreements

• ORC 3734.85 (E) allows expenditure of Ohio Scrap
  Tire Funds for the removal and disposal of
• More than 100 but less than 5,000 scrap tires
  (NOT PTEs) from a site
• Without subsequent cost recovery
• If all six conditions are applicable
• NOTE Consensual agreements are available to
  private
• property owners, businesses and
  local governments.

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Scrap Tire Cleanup Assistance
Under 5,000 Scrap Tire Agreements

• Owner inherited property containing 100 to 5,000
  tires.
• OR
• Current owner was the victim of open dumping.
• In both cases, owner did not participate or
  profit from the open dumping of the scrap tires.
• All six conditions are met.

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Scrap Tire Cleanup AssistanceMust Meet All Six
Conditions

1. Tires placed after owner acquired title, OR tires
   placed before owner acquired title by bequest of
   devise.
2. Property owner did not have knowledge of or took
   actions to prevent tires from being placed on
   property.
3. Property owner did not participate in or consent
   to placing the tires on the property.
4. Property owner received no financial benefit.
5. Property title was not transferred to evade
   liability.
6. Responsible party who placed tires on the
   property was not acting as an agent for the
   property owner.

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Scrap Tire Cleanup Assistance
Under 5,000 Scrap Tire Agreements

• Form available on Web Site http//www.epa.ohio.gov
  /portals/34/document/forms/st removal cert and
  consent form.pdf
• To be accepted for consideration, submitted forms
  must

• Include copy of recorded deed with complete
• legal description as an attachment.
• b. Line out non-applicable 4a or 4b condition.
• Have notarized signatures of all property
  
• owners listed on deed, or an authorized
  agent of firm, or a local government official.
• d. Include site photos and map.

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Scrap Tire Cleanup Assistance
On the form line out either 4a of 4b whichever
does not apply.

• 4. The undersigned hereby certifies that
  (Strike out the non-applicable sentence, 4a or
  4b)
• a. The tires were placed on the property after
  the owner acquired title to the property, or
• b. The tires were placed on the
  property before the owner acquired title to the
  property and the owner acquired title to the
  property by bequest or devise. ORC
  3734.85(E)(1).

Strike out the entire sentence and not just the
letter (a or b).
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Scrap Tire Cleanup AssistanceUnder 5,000 Scrap
Tire Agreements

• Documentation for roadside cleanups
• Statement tires were open dumped in the road
  right-of-way
• Description of where the tires were found
• County Road 1 between Sandy Lane and Shady Road
• Twp Road 99 between mile markers 5 and 17
• (GPS Coordinates are best)
• Map with road segments marked also is helpful
• Location where tires are (or will be) staged

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Scrap Tire Cleanup AssistanceUnder 5,000 Scrap
Tire Agreements

• Options for collection of tires
• Contractor collects tires if several hundred in
  one location ( - Most expensive)
• Contractor can drop of a trailer at the location
  you chose and you can load tires into it ( -
  Most cost effective)
• For short duration events such as organized
  volunteer roadside cleanups
• Stage tires at a county or township property
• For ongoing pick up of roadside litter
• Store tires indoors or cover with a tarp
• Arrange for pickup after several hundred tires
  are stored

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Scrap Tire Cleanup Assistance

• Under 5,000 Scrap Tire Agreements
• 393 sites remediated between October 2005 and
  July 2012.
• 25 additional sites remediated so far during SFY
  13.
• Funds available and always looking for additional
  sites which meet the criteria.
• Ohio Scrap Tire Program currently scheduled to
  sunset June 30, 2013. Expect Legislature will
  continue the Program.

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For Further Ohio Scrap Tire Remediation Program
Information
Web Site http//epa.ohio.gov/dmwm/Home/ScrapTire
s.aspx Toll Free [phone] Harry E.
Smail [phone] harry.smail_at_epa.ohio.gov
Connie Livchak [phone]
connie.livcak_at_epa.ohio.gov
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Division of
Materials and Waste Management Financial
Assurance and Remediation Unit 50 West Town
Street, Suite 700 Columbus, Ohio 43216-1049