Permits Needed for a Demolition/ Renovation Activities

If you plan to participate in an asbestos project, inspection, asbestos hazardous emergency response act management plan, abatement project design or asbestos air sampling in Missouri, you must receive an Asbestos Occupation Certification from the department.

If your business or the department has identified an immediate and significant threat to human health or the environment based on hazardous waste issues at your facility, the department may issue a Hazardous Waste Emergency Permit. The department may issue an emergency permit to a company that already has a hazardous waste permit, to allow them to treat, store or dispose of a hazardous waste not covered by their effective permit. The department may also issue an emergency permit to non-permitted companies, to allow them to temporarily treat, store or dispose of hazardous waste. The emergency permit clearly specifies the hazardous wastes the company intends to handle and how they are allow to treat, store or dispose of the wastes. An emergency permit can be effective for up to 90 days.

If you or your business plans to transport hazardous waste including waste oil, explosives, gases, flammable and combustible liquids, flammable solids, oxidizers and organic peroxides, poisons, radioactive materials, corrosives or infectious waste, you must obtain a Hazardous/ Infectious Waste Transporter License.

If your business is a no-discharge, private or domestic wastewater treatment facility with design flows of less than 50,000 gallons per day and land apply the wastewater, design flows of less than 50,000 gallons per day and plan to land apply the wastewater, you must obtain a Land Application of Domestic Wastewater MOG823000 master general permit.

Open burning is the burning of any materials in which air contaminants are emitted directly into the air without first passing through a stack or chimney. The department's fact sheet summarizes allowable and prohibited open burning under Missouri regulations. It does not include open burning restrictions that city or county governments may impose in addition to Missouri’s state regulations. Prior to conducting any open burning, businesses and citizens should contact the city or county of jurisdiction for any local restrictions.

• Facts on Open Burning Under Missouri Regulations - PUB2047

If your business plans to construct a public water system that will supply drinking water to the public, you must obtain a Public Water Systems Construction Permit. You must obtain this permit if you also plan to complete the following construction projects to the water system: waterline extensions, waterline replacements, drilling water supply well, construction a storage tank, adding a disinfection system, treatment changes, building a pump station or other improvements or modifications. A public water system has at least 15 service connections or serves at least 25 people at least 60 days out of the year. If your business plans to connect to a permitted public water system, then you are not required to obtain this permit.

If your business plans to operate a public water system that supplies drinking water to the public, you must obtain a Public Water Systems Permit to Dispense. A public water system has at least 15 service connections or serves at least 25 people at least 60 days out of the year. If your business plans to connect to a permitted public water system, then you are not required to obtain this permit.

Your business may be eligible to receive a Solid Waste Exemption. Certain waste materials may be salvaged for continued use, or recovered and reused for another purpose that extends the value of that materials. Some waste recovery, reuse or repurposing activities may not require a permit, as long as the activity does not cause a hazard to human health, a hazard to the environment or a public nuisance. Although the activities may be exempt from solid waste permitting requirements, there may be criteria you must meet to be granted this exemption. Examples of common activities and wastes include beneficial use, clean fill, composting, construction and demolition waste, NORM and TENORM. Learn more by visiting the department's Activities Potentially Exempt from Solid Waste Regulations.