Federal Facilities Section

The Federal Facilities Section of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) provides cleanup oversight at Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DoD) sites in Ohio. Ohio EPA says the section also facilitates environmental monitoring, emergency response, remedial actions and public outreach at those sites. The section's page carries a list of Ohio sites.

In a Phase I ESA

ASTM E1527-21 does not name a state list of federal facility cleanups among its standard record sources. The section's list matters for a property on or near a federal defense or energy site: since the section provides cleanup oversight at such sites, ask Ohio EPA for its files as well as the federal agency. Where such a site is also on a federal Superfund list, the general reading is on the NPL page and the SEMS page.

Three details shape how to read the list.

• It names sites Ohio EPA calls active. Ohio EPA says the list includes sites in active cleanup or in active management. The page does not say whether a site leaves the list when that work ends, so do not read a site's absence as a sign that no federal cleanup took place there.
• It names the county, not the parcel. A row gives a site's name and county. Confirm where a listed site lies, and how far it reaches, from the federal agency's records or the file before relating it to a property.
• Ohio EPA's documents use other names too. Two entries on Ohio EPA's guidance list for its cleanup programs name, beside the Remedial Response Program, the Office of Federal Facility Oversight (OFFO) in one and the Federal Facility Section (OFFO) in the other. A document may use either name; search for both.

How Ohio EPA runs its own state cleanups is on the Remedial Response Program page.

What the record shows

Each row of the list gives the site, its county, its district as a code (the list writes NEDO, SEDO, NWDO, SWDO and CDO) and a site type. Most rows carry a web address outside Ohio EPA's website, ten of them the same address; this handbook did not open them. When read on October 15, 2026, the list had 36 rows in 21 counties, with these site types:

The page spells out DOE and DoD and gives no key to the other codes, so this handbook leaves them as printed. Do not infer more from an abbreviation than the page says.

Where to look a site up

• The list is on Ohio EPA's Federal Facilities Section page.
• The Contacts page of Ohio EPA's Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) lists one staff member under a Federal Facilities heading, and the pages read give no other line for the section.

Getting the file

The page read does not say where the section's files are kept or how to ask for them. Ohio EPA has no central repository for all its records: each division and district office stores its own files, so more than one office may need to be asked about one site. Many records are in the agency's eDocument search. For others, use the online file review request form; Ohio EPA says the best first contact for a file review is the district office where the site is located. The route is set out on the Access Public Records page. The pages read do not say how to ask the federal agencies for their records.

Sources

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency pages, read October 15, 2026, no modified date shown:

• Federal Facilities Section (the page shows the date September 24, 2021, without saying what the date is)
• Access Public Records (read October 14, 2026)
• Contacts (read October 7, 2026)
• Guidance for RCRA, VAP, and Remedial Response (read October 7, 2026)
• eDocument Search (read October 7, 2026)