OH HB163

Modifies permit application requirements by allowing registered surveyors to perform plans, maps, and certifications in addition to professional engineers and landscape architects

Clarifies set-back distances from public roads, occupied dwellings, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, and parks must be measured horizontally (adds specificity to existing distance requirements of 100-300 feet)

Establishes alternative financial security requirements for permittees responsible for mine drainage treatment or alternative water supply after reclamation, with security amount equal to present value of estimated long-term treatment costs

Allows permittees to fund alternative financial security incrementally over five years using the reclamation forfeiture fund as collateral, with a 7.5% semi-annual fee on the average balance provided by the fund

Modifies acid mine drainage calculation standards by establishing a single neutralization potential threshold of negative ten (rather than separate thresholds based on total versus pyritic sulfur content)