Section 3746.18 - Request for supporting documents and data(A) The director of environmental protection may request a certified professional or certified laboratory or accredited laboratory to provide the director documents and data for the purposes of verifying the qualifications of the professional or laboratory or auditing the performance of the professional or laboratory in connection with voluntary actions conducted under this chapter and rules adopted under it or may request any other person who performed work that was conducted to support a request for a no further action letter as provided in division (B)(2) of section 3746.10 of the Revised Code to submit documents and data relating to the no further action letter. No person shall fail to comply with a request made under this division.
(B) In addition to any other remedy provided by law, the director may do either or both of the following in connection with a violation of division (A) of this section: (1) Permanently revoke the certification of the certified professional in accordance with rules adopted under division (B)(5)(g) of section 3746.04 of the Revised Code, as applicable;(2) Revoke any covenant not to sue issued under section 3746.12 of the Revised Code pertaining to the director's request for information under division (A) of this section. Nothing in division (B)(2) of this section precludes a person whose covenant not to sue was revoked under that division from having a new no further action letter prepared regarding the relevant property and issued under section 3746.11 of the Revised Code by another certified professional, or using another accredited laboratory, for the purpose of obtaining a new covenant not to sue for the property.
Amended by 134th General Assembly, HB 110,§101.01, eff. 9/30/2021.Effective Date: 9/28/1994.