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eDocument Search (eDoc)
Ohio EPA eDocument Search (eDoc)
eDocument Search (eDoc) is the online document system of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA). It holds scanned agency documents that can be searched by document type, date range, facility name, county, program, secondary ID, or any word or phrase in the text.
In a Phase I ESA
ASTM E1527-21 does not name an agency document system among its standard record sources. In Ohio it is where a listing can be turned into a document without a records request, and three limits decide how far to trust an empty result.
- Coverage starts on fixed dates. Seven document types are online from January 1, 2007: bilateral compliance agreements, Director's Final Findings and Orders, judicial orders, notices of violation, rescissions, return to compliance documents and warning letters. A longer set runs from September 30, 2014. It includes covenants, inspections or compliance reviews, permits, registrations, remediation reports and responses, monitoring or sampling, referrals to the Attorney General, verified complaints and general correspondence. Anything older takes a records request.
- Incoming documents came later. Ohio EPA says it began adding most incoming documents of those types on December 15, 2014, and that large bound documents should be available from July 1, 2015.
- It is not the whole file. Ohio EPA says the database does not include all agency documents at this time. Spill incident reports, for example, are online only when a district office investigation report goes with them; see Emergency Response spills and releases.
What an order is, and how a negotiated order differs from a unilateral one, is on the Remedial Response Program page.
What the record shows
Each result links the document, all the documents related to the same facility, and the document's keyword values. Ohio EPA gives these tips for searching:
- A search on the entity name is fuzzy, so the exact form of a facility's name is not needed.
- A search that is too broad shows only the first 2,000 documents. Add a county, a date range or a document type.
- Once one document for a facility is found, the related documents folder icon shows everything in the system for that facility.
- For a full text search, put an exact phrase in double quotes.
- A document may appear as soon as 48 hours after Ohio EPA issues or receives it, and sometimes takes longer.
Where to look a site up
- The search itself is at eDocument search.
- For questions or help, Ohio EPA gives 614-644-3037 and edoc.support@epa.ohio.gov.
Getting the file
For a document that should be in eDoc but cannot be found, or for any record that is not in it, Ohio EPA says to use its online file review request form. The agency has no central repository: each division and district office stores its own files, and the best first contact is the district office where the facility or site is located. Ohio EPA says district offices generally hold permit applications, plan review correspondence, violation letters, facility inspection letters, general correspondence, complaint investigations and sampling results.
Sources
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency pages, read October 7, 2026, no modified date shown: