IMPLEMENTATION On January 15, 2016, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Ohio Department of Commerce (ODC) including the State Fire Marshal’s Office, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol, with the support of the Governor’s Office, completed a high-priority initiative to coordinate and develop a incident notification “one-call” system to be used by the oil and gas industry in the event of a reportable oil and gas incident. This one-call notification system will be used by the oil and gas industry as a means to satisfy their notification requirements among State of Ohio departments and agencies, without having to separately notify each department or agency, as is currently required through several applicable state laws, regulations and/or permit conditions. The new toll-free number is: The ODNR’s 24-hour 1-844-OHCALL1 (1-844-642-2551). dispatching center will receive all calls made to 1-844-OHCALL1. ODNR dispatchers are trained and have a que of required questions that they will ask to acquire all necessary information to guide to initial response. Dispatchers will document incident information via ODNR’s Computer Aided Dispatching (CAD) system, and then notify a DOGRM Duty Officer about the incident. The ODNR dispatching center has established agency notification processes based upon notification criteria and contact information provided by the agencies. This will enable ODNR to efficiently distribute incident information with other State of Ohio Departments and agencies including the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, the Ohio Department of Commerce and the Public Utilities Commission as required by law to meet all notification requirements. Once initial notification has been completed, the DOGRM Duty Officer will continue to coordinate incident response with each respective agency. Each agency will be responsible for making its own internal notifications and deploying processes and personnel to respond to incident on an as-needed basis.
IMPLEMENTATION On January 15, 2016, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Ohio Department of Commerce (ODC) including the State Fire Marshal’s Office, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol, with the support of the Governor’s Office, completed a high-priority initiative to coordinate and develop a “one-call” incident notification system to be used by the oil and gas industry in the event of a reportable oil and gas incident. This one-call notification system will be used by the oil and gas industry as a means to satisfy their notification requirements among State of Ohio departments and agencies, without having to separately notify each department or agency, as is currently required through several applicable state laws, regulations and/or permit conditions. The new toll-free number is: 1-844-OHCALL1 (1-844-642-2551). The ODNR’s 24-hour dispatching center will receive all calls made to 1-844-OHCALL1. ODNR dispatchers are trained and have a que of required questions that they will ask to acquire all necessary information to guide to initial response. Dispatchers will document incident information via ODNR’s Computer Aided Dispatching (CAD) system, and then notify a DOGRM Duty Officer about the incident. The ODNR dispatching center has established agency notification processes based upon notification criteria and contact information provided by the agencies. This will enable ODNR to efficiently distribute incident information with other State of Ohio Departments and agencies including the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, the Ohio Department of Commerce and the Public Utilities Commission as required by law to meet all notification requirements. Once initial notification has been completed, the DOGRM Duty Officer will continue to coordinate incident response with each respective agency. Each agency will be responsible for making its own internal notifications and deploying processes and personnel to respond to incident on an as-needed basis.