O'NEILL, C. J.
The primary issue in these procedurally complex appeals is whether Ohio's 1972 Environmental Protection Act (Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 397, 134 Ohio Laws 695) authorizes the Director of Environmental Protection to rectify an inadequate public water supply situation by invoking the emergency-order power granted him under R. C. 6111.06(C).
The statutory history behind the relevant statutes leads this court to conclude he is not so authorized...
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