Permits Needed for a Land Transportation and Warehouse

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.

If your business is engaged in motor freight, watercraft transportation, motorized vehicle maintenance and repair, warehousing activities, railways and U.S. Postal Service maintenance facilities, you are required to obtain a Motor Freight Transportation Master General Stormwater Permit MOR80C000 to address stormwater discharges from the property.

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.

If your business plans to collect scrap tires prior to being offered for recycling or processing and plans to keep fewer than 500 scrap tires on-site at any time, your facility is not required to obtain a permit. However, there are exemptions and record keeping requirements. Also, the center shall be used only for the proper and temporary storage of scrap tires that will be removed for recovery or processing or for temporary storage at a permitted scrap tire processing facility for permanent disposal at a permitted solid waste disposal area.

If your business plans to perform any work in a waterway or wetland, you may be required to submit a Section 401 Water Quality Certification. Contact the appropriate U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district to determine if a federal permit is required. If there is no federal permit required, then you are not required to obtain a 401 Water Quality Certification from the department.