Ohio Code § 6111.41

§ 6111.41.

The director of environmental protection shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive

plan or plans for the development, use, and protection of water resources, covering

all aspects of water management and including regional water development plans.  The director of natural resources shall prepare and maintain the elements of such

plans relating to recreation, fish, wildlife, flood control, and flood plain management. The director of environmental protection shall not adopt any comprehensive plan until

the director of natural resources approves those portions of the plan relating to

recreation, fish, wildlife, flood control, and flood plain management. In the performance of his functions relating to comprehensive water resource management

planning, the director of environmental protection may plan different beneficial uses

for different bodies of water and different reaches thereof, and in connection therewith

shall give due consideration to the practicability and the physical and economic feasibility

of compliance with requirements that would be necessary to attain the water quality

to support such uses, and to the equities involved therein. The director may review water management plans and studies made by, for, or required

by law to be submitted to, governmental agencies, and render staff planning assistance

to such agencies. The director may develop, implement, and coordinate a comprehensive plan for water

management research by state universities and other public and private institutions.