Who Regulates Agricultural Migrant Labor Camps?
State Regulations (OAC Chapter 3701-33) The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) is the state of Ohio agency responsible for: • Planning the review and approval of new or extensively altered agricultural labor camps. • Licensing agricultural labor camps. • Inspecting agricultural labor camps to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. • Investigating reported unlicensed agricultural labor camps. • Investigating reported rule violations in licensed agricultural labor camps. • Establishing criteria for voluntary standards for agricultural labor camps (in cooperation with the agricultural labor camp advisory committee). Voluntary standards are used as partial criteria for the award of grant monies through the Ohio Department of Development to camp operators for construction of new camps or rehabilitation of existing camps. State Regulations (OAC Chapters 3745 and 6111) The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) rules cover both the migrant labor camp drinking-water system and the s
