Permits Needed for a Mining

If your business is conducting a land reclamation project involving land disturbance and projects consisting solely of pond and shaft dewatering or stockpiling biosolids for reclamation use, you must obtain an Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation MOG050000 general permit. Your business must implement best management practices during the project by using filter fabric, check dams, sediment ponds, straw bales or other practices used to minimize sediment loss.

If your business is required to obtain a Part 70 Operating Permits but accepts voluntary, practically enforcement limitation to reduce emissions to less than 100 tons per year of any regulated pollutant and is less than 10 tons per year of any single hazardous air pollutant and less than 25 tons per year of any combined hazardous air pollutant, you may require an Air Intermediate Operating Permit to address potential air emissions.

If your business plans to construct a new installation or modify an existing minor installation and the project has the potential to emit more than major emission levels of a regulated air containment or construct a new installation or modify an existing major installation and the project has the potential to emit more than the minor levels per year, you may require an Air Major Construction Permit Sections (7), (8) & (9) to address potential air emissions.

If your business plans to construct a new installation or modify an existing minor installation and the project has the potential to emit less than major source levels per year; or you plan to construct a new installation or modify an existing major installation and the project has the potential to emit less than the minor levels per year, you may require an Air Minor Construction Permit to address potential air emissions.

If your business has the potential to emit greater than 100 tons per year of any regulated pollutant, has the potential to emit greater than 100 tons per year of any single hazardous air pollutant, or greater than 25 tons per year of combined hazardous air pollutants, or is required by a New Source Performance Standard or a Maximum Achievable Control Technology, you may require an Air Part 70 Operating Permit.

If your business operates a clay pit or mine, you must obtain a Clay Pits MOG840000 master general permit for the discharge of stormwater, snowmelt and infiltration water from the site.

If you or your business produce or store used or “spent” product, by-product or sludge that, when discarded, would be identified as a hazardous waste, but you would prefer to handle it as a hazardous secondary material, you (the hazardous waste generator) must submit a Notification of Regulated Waste Activity form and attach a completed Hazardous Secondary Materials addendum. 

If you produce or store some form of hazardous waste as a result of your business processes, you may be required to register as a hazardous waste generator.

If your business owns or operates a hazardous waste treatment facility and wants to use new and experimental treatment technologies that do not fall under current regulation standards, you may apply for a Hazardous Waste Research, Development and Demonstration Permit.

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 plans to engage in surface mining of industrial minerals such as sand, gravel, limestone, dolomite, clay or other construction aggregates, you may need an Industrial Mineral Mines Permit – In-stream Sand and Gravel Mining to engage in surface mining.

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 plans to process metallic minerals or mineral ores that contain lead, iron, silver, gold, zinc or copper and that process produces waste such as waste rock, mine water, tailings or chat, you may need a Metallic Mineral Waste Management Permit

If your business plans to remove topsoil and other soil material to expose the mineral commodity, you may need an Industrial Minerals Mines Permit - Open Pit Mining. Industrial mineral open pit mine sites range in size from one acre sand and gravel pits to 1,000 acre limestone sites.

If your company plans to commercially treat, store or dispose of PCBs and PCB items in Missouri, you are required to obtain a Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Facility Permit.

If your business plans to construct a public water system that will supply drinking water to the public, you must obtain a Public Drinking Water 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 Drinking Water 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 you want to treat, store or dispose of hazardous remediation waste at a remediation waste management site in Missouri, you may be required to follow a Remedial Action Plan. The plan lists conditions about how to treat, store or dispose of hazardous remediation waste.

If your business will haul scrap tires to processing facilities, you are required to apply for a Scrap Tire Hauler Permit. You will not be required to obtain a permit if your activity falls into one of the following categories, provided you do not create pollution, a public nuisance or a health hazard.

1. A person who does not haul for monetary or non-monetary compensation or commercial profit.
2. A person hauling warranty tires or new defective tires to the retailer, wholesaler or manufacturer for adjustment credit or return.
3. A person hauling scrap tires that have been generated at their own business or residence, provided this transportation is done using their own employees and vehicles.

If your business is listed in 10CSR 20-6.200 by SIC code or description, you will need to apply for a Site-Specific Industrial Stormwater Operating Permit before you may operate, use or maintain the existing point source of water pollution. A Wastewater Construction Permit is required if constructing an earthen basin.

If your business plans to discharge wastewater from a manufacturing process, you will need to apply for a Site-Specific Industrial Wastewater Operating Permit before you may operate, use or maintain the existing point source of water pollution. A Wastewater Construction Permit is required if constructing an earthen basin.

If your business plans to construct a facility or location that will dispose of solid waste from more than one residence or from any commercial, industrial, manufacturing, recreational or governmental operation, you are required to apply for a Solid Waste Disposal Area Construction Permit. Types of disposal areas include sanitary, demolition, special waste and utility waste landfills.

If your business plans to dispose of solid waste from more than one residence or from any commercial, industrial, manufacturing, recreational or governmental operation, you are required to apply for a Solid Waste Disposal Area Operating Permit. Types of disposal areas include sanitary, demolition, special waste and utility waste landfills.

If your business includes an underground storage tank on the property used to store either petroleum or certain hazardous substances, or if you plan to have a tank installed for these reasons, you may be required to submit an Underground Storage Tank Registration with the department.