Water Protection Program
Water Protection Program Rule Development
Public Drinking Water Branch | Water Pollution Control Branch
The following rule developments are being considered. The Regulatory Impact Report provides information on the rule development. Please provide comments in the time frames indicated. All comments received will be posted with responses prior to filing as a proposed rulemaking. Once filed and published in the Missouri Register, there will be another opportunity to comment during the proposed rulemaking open comment period and public hearing prior to adoption. Thank you for your interest and assistance in developing these rules.
Public Drinking Water Branch
Design Guide for Public Water Systems
The Public Drinking Water Branch is replacing the Design Guide for Community Water Systems and Standards for Noncommunity Public Water Supplies with Minimum Design Standards for Missouri Public Water Systems. The department is proposing to adopt these design standards into regulation. The proposed revisions are intended to improve the design guide based on new technology and information. The department used an extensive stakeholder process in developing these revisions. For background and other information please click here.
The rulemaking does not affect environmental standards or conditions, so a Regulatory Impact Report is not required. However, because this is a significant rulemaking, the department has prepared a Regulatory Impact Report in order to provide regulatory impact information to the public.
The Regulatory Impact Report public comment period closes March 22, 2013.
Public Notice
Regulatory Impact Report
When submitting comments on the Regulatory Impact Report please include your name, address, and telephone number.
Send comments by email to ryan.seabaugh@dnr.mo.gov. Please copy maher.jaafari@dnr.mo.gov.
To send comments by mail the address is:
Ryan Seabaugh
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Water Protection Program
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176
Water Pollution Control Branch
10 CSR 20-7.015 Effluent Regulation
The primary purposes of this amendment include 1) revisions related to short-term E. Coli limits and E. Coli monitoring frequency, 2) revision to utilize the federal definition of bypass retaining the Department’s current practice of regulating sanitary sewer overflows, 3) the establishment of a technology baseline to be used for the purpose of evaluating treatment alternatives for new or expanded discharges of nutrients, 4) the removal of deadlines for attaining phosphorus limits because they will have passed by the time the regulation is effective, 5) the addition of language that details the different authorities for placing limits in permits, 6) the addition of language that clarifies the practice of placing Whole Effluent Toxicity testing requirements in certain permits, and 7) several other minor changes that will serve to better organize the regulation or that will clarify current permitting practices.
The department has held stakeholder meetings for the purpose of developing this rulemaking, and a Regulatory Impact report has been developed to provide regulatory impact information to the public.
Notice
Public Notice
The Regulatory Impact Report public comment period closes on Jan. 22, 2013.
Draft Rule
Regulatory Impact Report
Rulemaking Report
When submitting comments please include a name, address and phone number.
Send comments by email to John.Rustige@dnr.mo.gov
To send comments by mail the address is:
John Rustige
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Water Protection Program
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176
10 CSR 20-7.031 - Water Quality Standards
The purpose of this rulemaking is to update state water quality standards to ensure they are functionally equivalent to federal standards and to improve the clarity, specificity and effectiveness of the standards. This rulemaking is required under Section 303(c) of the federal Clean Water Act and addresses primarily federal and state initiatives, EPA disapprovals and Missouri Clean Water Commission directives. The department has held workgroup and stakeholder meetings for the purpose of reviewing applicable water quality standards and, as appropriate, considering modifications or adoptions of new or revised standards. A Regulatory Impact Report (RIR) has been developed to provide regulatory impact information to the public.
A Finding of Necessity was signed by the Missouri Clean Water Commission on May 2, 2012.
The Regulatory Impact Report Public Notice public comment period was Nov. 23, 2012 through Jan. 22, 2013.
Public Notice
Regulatory Impact Report
Draft Rule
Regulatory Impact Report Reference Documents (Appendix A)
Rulemaking Report
Barr Engineering Co.
City of Columbia-Public Works Dept., Sewer Utility Division
Association of Missouri Cleanwater Agencies
Missouri Coalition for the Environment
Missouri Department of Conservation
Missouri Farm Bureau
Missouri Public Utility Alliance
REGFORM
When submitting comments please include a name, address and phone number.
Send comments by email to John Hoke
To send comments by mail the address is:
John Hoke
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Water Protection Program
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176
10 CSR 20-6.100 - General Pretreatment Regulations
The order of rulemaking for a new rule that incorporates by reference the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's federal regulation at 40 CFR 403- General Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution, regulating the discharges of industrial process wastewater to a publicly owned treatment works, has been adopted. This rulemaking maintains alignment with federal requirements. Pretreatment refers to the discharge of industrial pollutants to a city’s sewer system. Pollutants of concern are metals, toxic organic chemicals, cyanide, ammonia, and others, depending on the industry.
Orders of Rulemaking
Rescission
New Rule
Comments:
Comments from MSD
Comments from MSD part II
Comments from Springfield
Comments from Independence
The order of rulemaking for the new rule, the General Pretreatment Regulation, was adopted by the Missouri Clean Water Commission on July 11, 2012. The existing rule at 10 CSR 20-6.100 was rescinded.
Publication is expected in the Missouri Register on Sept. 17, in the Code of State Regulations Sept. 30, with an effective date of Oct. 30, 2012.
When submitting comments please include a name, address and phone number.
For questions, or to send comments by mail, the address is:
Walter Fett
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Water Protection Program
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176
