Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 644
Water Pollution
←644.011
Section 644.016.1
644.018→
August 28, 2015
Definitions.
644.016. When used in sections 644.006 to 644.141 and in standards,
rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to sections 644.006 to 644.141,
the following words and phrases mean:
(1) "Aquaculture facility", a hatchery, fish farm, or other facility
used for the production of aquatic animals that is required to have a
permit pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C.
Section 1251, et seq.;
(2) "Commission", the clean water commission of the state of Missouri
created in section 644.021;
(3) "Conference, conciliation and persuasion", a process of verbal or
written communications consisting of meetings, reports, correspondence or
telephone conferences between authorized representatives of the department
and the alleged violator. The process shall, at a minimum, consist of one
offer to meet with the alleged violator tendered by the department. During
any such meeting, the department and the alleged violator shall negotiate
in good faith to eliminate the alleged violation and shall attempt to agree
upon a plan to achieve compliance;
(4) "Department", the department of natural resources;
(5) "Director", the director of the department of natural resources;
(6) "Discharge", the causing or permitting of one or more water
contaminants to enter the waters of the state;
(7) "Effluent control regulations", limitations on the discharge of
water contaminants;
(8) "General permit", a permit written with a standard group of
conditions and with applicability intended for a designated category of
water contaminant sources that have the same or similar operations,
discharges and geographical locations, and that require the same or similar
monitoring, and that would be more appropriately controlled pursuant to a
general permit rather than pursuant to a site-specific permit;
(9) "General permit template", a draft general permit that is being
developed through a public participation process;
(10) "Human sewage", human excreta and wastewater, including bath and
toilet waste, residential laundry waste, residential kitchen waste, and
other similar waste from household or establishment appurtenances;
(11) "Income" includes retirement benefits, consultant fees, and
stock dividends;
(12) "Minor violation", a violation which possesses a small potential
to harm the environment or human health or cause pollution, was not
knowingly committed, and is not defined by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency as other than minor;
(13) "Permit by rule", a permit granted by rule, not by a paper
certificate, and conditioned by the permit holder's compliance with
commission rules;
(14) "Permit holders or applicants for a permit" shall not include
officials or employees who work full time for any department or agency of
the state of Missouri;
(15) "Person", any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm,
company, public or private corporation, association, joint stock company,
trust, estate, political subdivision, or any agency, board, department, or
bureau of the state or federal government, or any other legal entity
whatever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties;
(16) "Point source", any discernible, confined and discrete
conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel,
conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated
animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which
pollutants are or may be discharged. Point source does not include
agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrigated
agriculture;
(17) "Pollution", such contamination or other alteration of the
physical, chemical or biological properties of any waters of the state,
including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the
waters, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or
other substance into any waters of the state as will or is reasonably
certain to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental or
injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, industrial,
agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to wild
animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life;
(18) "Pretreatment regulations", limitations on the introduction of
pollutants or water contaminants into publicly owned treatment works or
facilities which the commission determines are not susceptible to treatment
by such works or facilities or which would interfere with their operation,
except that wastes as determined compatible for treatment pursuant to any
federal water pollution control act or guidelines shall be limited or
treated pursuant to this chapter only as required by such act or
guidelines;
(19) "Residential housing development", any land which is divided or
proposed to be divided into three or more lots, whether contiguous or not,
for the purpose of sale or lease as part of a common promotional plan for
residential housing;
(20) "Sewer system", pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and
force mains, and all other structures, devices, appurtenances and
facilities used for collecting or conducting wastes to an ultimate point
for treatment or handling;
(21) "Significant portion of his or her income" shall mean ten
percent of gross personal income for a calendar year, except that it shall
mean fifty percent of gross personal income for a calendar year if the
recipient is over sixty years of age, and is receiving such portion
pursuant to retirement, pension, or similar arrangement;
(22) "Site-specific permit", a permit written for discharges emitted
from a single water contaminant source and containing specific conditions,
monitoring requirements and effluent limits to control such discharges;
(23) "Treatment facilities", any method, process, or equipment which
removes, reduces, or renders less obnoxious water contaminants released
from any source;
(24) "Water contaminant", any particulate matter or solid matter or
liquid or any gas or vapor or any combination thereof, or any temperature
change which is in or enters any waters of the state either directly or
indirectly by surface runoff, by sewer, by subsurface seepage or otherwise,
which causes or would cause pollution upon entering waters of the state, or
which violates or exceeds any of the standards, regulations or limitations
set forth in sections 644.006 to 644.141 or any federal water pollution
control act, or is included in the definition of pollutant in such federal
act;
(25) "Water contaminant source", the point or points of discharge
from a single tract of property on which is located any installation,
operation or condition which includes any point source defined in sections
644.006 to 644.141 and nonpoint source pursuant to any federal water
pollution control act, which causes or permits a water contaminant
therefrom to enter waters of the state either directly or indirectly;
(26) "Water quality standards", specified concentrations and
durations of water contaminants which reflect the relationship of the
intensity and composition of water contaminants to potential undesirable
effects;
(27) "Waters of the state", all waters within the jurisdiction of
this state, including all rivers, streams, lakes and other bodies of
surface and subsurface water lying within or forming a part of the
boundaries of the state which are not entirely confined and located
completely upon lands owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a single
person or by two or more persons jointly or as tenants in common.
(L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321, A.L. 1993 S.B. 80, et
al., A.L. 2000 S.B. 741, A.L. 2002 S.B. 984 & 985, A.L. 2006 H.B.
1149, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1251, A.L. 2015 H.B. 92)
*Transferred 1986; formerly 204.016
2012
2006
2002
2000
2012
644.016. When used in sections 644.006 to 644.141 and in standards,
rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to sections 644.006 to 644.141,
the following words and phrases mean:
(1) "Aquaculture facility", a hatchery, fish farm, or other facility
used for the production of aquatic animals that is required to have a
permit pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251,
et seq.;
(2) "Commission", the clean water commission of the state of Missouri
created in section 644.021;
(3) "Conference, conciliation and persuasion", a process of verbal or
written communications consisting of meetings, reports, correspondence or
telephone conferences between authorized representatives of the department
and the alleged violator. The process shall, at a minimum, consist of one
offer to meet with the alleged violator tendered by the department. During
any such meeting, the department and the alleged violator shall negotiate
in good faith to eliminate the alleged violation and shall attempt to agree
upon a plan to achieve compliance;
(4) "Department", the department of natural resources;
(5) "Director", the director of the department of natural resources;
(6) "Discharge", the causing or permitting of one or more water
contaminants to enter the waters of the state;
(7) "Effluent control regulations", limitations on the discharge of
water contaminants;
(8) "General permit", a permit written with a standard group of
conditions and with applicability intended for a designated category of
water contaminant sources that have the same or similar operations,
discharges and geographical locations, and that require the same or similar
monitoring, and that would be more appropriately controlled pursuant to a
general permit rather than pursuant to a site-specific permit;
(9) "General permit template", a draft general permit that is being
developed through a public participation process;
(10) "Human sewage", human excreta and wastewater, including bath and
toilet waste, residential laundry waste, residential kitchen waste, and
other similar waste from household or establishment appurtenances;
(11) "Income" includes retirement benefits, consultant fees, and
stock dividends;
(12) "Minor violation", a violation which possesses a small potential
to harm the environment or human health or cause pollution, was not
knowingly committed, and is not defined by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency as other than minor;
(13) "Permit by rule", a permit granted by rule, not by a paper
certificate, and conditioned by the permit holder's compliance with
commission rules;
(14) "Permit holders or applicants for a permit" shall not include
officials or employees who work full time for any department or agency of
the state of Missouri;
(15) "Person", any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm,
company, public or private corporation, association, joint stock company,
trust, estate, political subdivision, or any agency, board, department, or
bureau of the state or federal government, or any other legal entity
whatever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties;
(16) "Point source", any discernible, confined and discrete
conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel,
conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated
animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which
pollutants are or may be discharged. Point source does not include
agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrigated
agriculture;
(17) "Pollution", such contamination or other alteration of the
physical, chemical or biological properties of any waters of the state,
including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the
waters, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or
other substance into any waters of the state as will or is reasonably
certain to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental or
injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, industrial,
agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to wild
animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life;
(18) "Pretreatment regulations", limitations on the introduction of
pollutants or water contaminants into publicly owned treatment works or
facilities which the commission determines are not susceptible to treatment
by such works or facilities or which would interfere with their operation,
except that wastes as determined compatible for treatment pursuant to any
federal water pollution control act or guidelines shall be limited or
treated pursuant to this chapter only as required by such act or
guidelines;
(19) "Residential housing development", any land which is divided or
proposed to be divided into three or more lots, whether contiguous or not,
for the purpose of sale or lease as part of a common promotional plan for
residential housing;
(20) "Sewer system", pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and
force mains, and all other structures, devices, appurtenances and
facilities used for collecting or conducting wastes to an ultimate point
for treatment or handling;
(21) "Significant portion of his or her income" shall mean ten
percent of gross personal income for a calendar year, except that it shall
mean fifty percent of gross personal income for a calendar year if the
recipient is over sixty years of age, and is receiving such portion
pursuant to retirement, pension, or similar arrangement;
(22) "Site-specific permit", a permit written for discharges emitted
from a single water contaminant source and containing specific conditions,
monitoring requirements and effluent limits to control such discharges;
(23) "Treatment facilities", any method, process, or equipment which
removes, reduces, or renders less obnoxious water contaminants released
from any source;
(24) "Water contaminant", any particulate matter or solid matter or
liquid or any gas or vapor or any combination thereof, or any temperature
change which is in or enters any waters of the state either directly or
indirectly by surface runoff, by sewer, by subsurface seepage or otherwise,
which causes or would cause pollution upon entering waters of the state, or
which violates or exceeds any of the standards, regulations or limitations
set forth in sections 644.006 to 644.141 or any federal water pollution
control act, or is included in the definition of pollutant in such federal
act;
(25) "Water contaminant source", the point or points of discharge
from a single tract of property on which is located any installation,
operation or condition which includes any point source defined in sections
644.006 to 644.141 and nonpoint source pursuant to any federal water
pollution control act, which causes or permits a water contaminant
therefrom to enter waters of the state either directly or indirectly;
(26) "Water quality standards", specified concentrations and
durations of water contaminants which reflect the relationship of the
intensity and composition of water contaminants to potential undesirable
effects;
(27) "Waters of the state", all rivers, streams, lakes and other
bodies of surface and subsurface water lying within or forming a part of
the boundaries of the state which are not entirely confined and located
completely upon lands owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a single
person or by two or more persons jointly or as tenants in common and
includes waters of the United States lying within the state.
2006
644.016. When used in sections 644.006 to 644.141 and in standards,
rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to sections 644.006 to 644.141,
the following words and phrases mean:
(1) "Aquaculture facility", a hatchery, fish farm, or other facility
used for the production of aquatic animals that is required to have a permit
pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.;
(2) "Commission", the clean water commission of the state of Missouri
created in section 644.021;
(3) "Conference, conciliation and persuasion", a process of verbal or
written communications consisting of meetings, reports, correspondence or
telephone conferences between authorized representatives of the department
and the alleged violator. The process shall, at a minimum, consist of one
offer to meet with the alleged violator tendered by the department. During
any such meeting, the department and the alleged violator shall negotiate in
good faith to eliminate the alleged violation and shall attempt to agree upon
a plan to achieve compliance;
(4) "Department", the department of natural resources;
(5) "Director", the director of the department of natural resources;
(6) "Discharge", the causing or permitting of one or more water
contaminants to enter the waters of the state;
(7) "Effluent control regulations", limitations on the discharge of
water contaminants;
(8) "General permit", a permit written with a standard group of
conditions and with applicability intended for a designated category of water
contaminant sources that have the same or similar operations, discharges and
geographical locations, and that require the same or similar monitoring, and
that would be more appropriately controlled pursuant to a general permit
rather than pursuant to a site-specific permit;
(9) "Human sewage", human excreta and wastewater, including bath and
toilet waste, residential laundry waste, residential kitchen waste, and other
similar waste from household or establishment appurtenances;
(10) "Income" includes retirement benefits, consultant fees, and stock
dividends;
(11) "Minor violation", a violation which possesses a small potential to
harm the environment or human health or cause pollution, was not knowingly
committed, and is not defined by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency as other than minor;
(12) "Permit by rule", a permit granted by rule, not by a paper
certificate, and conditioned by the permit holder's compliance with
commission rules;
(13) "Permit holders or applicants for a permit" shall not include
officials or employees who work full time for any department or agency of the
state of Missouri;
(14) "Person", any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
public or private corporation, association, joint stock company, trust,
estate, political subdivision, or any agency, board, department, or bureau of
the state or federal government, or any other legal entity whatever which is
recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties;
(15) "Point source", any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance,
including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well,
discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding
operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or
may be discharged. Point source does not include agricultural storm water
discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture;
(16) "Pollution", such contamination or other alteration of the physical,
chemical or biological properties of any waters of the state, including
change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the waters, or such
discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substance into
any waters of the state as will or is reasonably certain to create a nuisance
or render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health,
safety or welfare, or to domestic, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or
other legitimate beneficial uses, or to wild animals, birds, fish or other
aquatic life;
(17) "Pretreatment regulations", limitations on the introduction of
pollutants or water contaminants into publicly owned treatment works or
facilities which the commission determines are not susceptible to treatment
by such works or facilities or which would interfere with their operation,
except that wastes as determined compatible for treatment pursuant to any
federal water pollution control act or guidelines shall be limited or treated
pursuant to this chapter only as required by such act or guidelines;
(18) "Residential housing development", any land which is divided or
proposed to be divided into three or more lots, whether contiguous or not,
for the purpose of sale or lease as part of a common promotional plan for
residential housing;
(19) "Sewer system", pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force
mains, and all other structures, devices, appurtenances and facilities used
for collecting or conducting wastes to an ultimate point for treatment or
handling;
(20) "Significant portion of his or her income" shall mean ten percent of
gross personal income for a calendar year, except that it shall mean fifty
percent of gross personal income for a calendar year if the recipient is over
sixty years of age, and is receiving such portion pursuant to retirement,
pension, or similar arrangement;
(21) "Site-specific permit", a permit written for discharges emitted from
a single water contaminant source and containing specific conditions,
monitoring requirements and effluent limits to control such discharges;
(22) "Treatment facilities", any method, process, or equipment which
removes, reduces, or renders less obnoxious water contaminants released from
any source;
(23) "Water contaminant", any particulate matter or solid matter or
liquid or any gas or vapor or any combination thereof, or any temperature
change which is in or enters any waters of the state either directly or
indirectly by surface runoff, by sewer, by subsurface seepage or otherwise,
which causes or would cause pollution upon entering waters of the state, or
which violates or exceeds any of the standards, regulations or limitations
set forth in sections 644.006 to 644.141 or any federal water pollution
control act, or is included in the definition of pollutant in such federal act;
(24) "Water contaminant source", the point or points of discharge from a
single tract of property on which is located any installation, operation or
condition which includes any point source defined in sections 644.006 to
644.141 and nonpoint source pursuant to any federal water pollution control
act, which causes or permits a water contaminant therefrom to enter waters of
the state either directly or indirectly;
(25) "Water quality standards", specified concentrations and durations of
water contaminants which reflect the relationship of the intensity and
composition of water contaminants to potential undesirable effects;
(26) "Waters of the state", all rivers, streams, lakes and other bodies
of surface and subsurface water lying within or forming a part of the
boundaries of the state which are not entirely confined and located completely
upon lands owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a single person or by two
or more persons jointly or as tenants in common and includes waters of the
United States lying within the state.
2002
644.016. When used in sections 644.006 to 644.141 and in standards,
rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to sections 644.006 to 644.141,
the following words and phrases mean:
(1) "Aquaculture facility", a hatchery, fish farm, or other facility
used for the production of aquatic animals that is required to have a
permit pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251
et seq.;
(2) "Commission", the clean water commission of the state of Missouri
created in section 644.021;
(3) "Conference, conciliation and persuasion", a process of verbal or
written communications consisting of meetings, reports, correspondence or
telephone conferences between authorized representatives of the department
and the alleged violator. The process shall, at a minimum, consist of one
offer to meet with the alleged violator tendered by the department. During
any such meeting, the department and the alleged violator shall negotiate
in good faith to eliminate the alleged violation and shall attempt to agree
upon a plan to achieve compliance;
(4) "Department", the department of natural resources;
(5) "Director", the director of the department of natural resources;
(6) "Discharge", the causing or permitting of one or more water
contaminants to enter the waters of the state;
(7) "Effluent control regulations", limitations on the discharge of
water contaminants;
(8) "General permit", a permit written with a standard group of
conditions and with applicability intended for a designated category of
water contaminant sources that have the same or similar operations,
discharges and geographical locations, and that require the same or similar
monitoring, and that would be more appropriately controlled pursuant to a
general permit rather than pursuant to a site-specific permit;
(9) "Human sewage", human excreta and wastewater, including bath and
toilet waste, residential laundry waste, residential kitchen waste, and
other similar waste from household or establishment appurtenances;
(10) "Income" includes retirement benefits, consultant fees, and
stock dividends;
(11) "Minor violation", a violation which possesses a small potential
to harm the environment or human health or cause pollution, was not
knowingly committed, and is not defined by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency as other than minor;
(12) "Permit by rule", a permit granted by rule, not by a paper
certificate, and conditioned by the permit holder's compliance with
commission rules;
(13) "Permit holders or applicants for a permit" shall not include
officials or employees who work full time for any department or agency of
the state of Missouri;
(14) "Person", any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm,
company, public or private corporation, association, joint stock company,
trust, estate, political subdivision, or any agency, board, department, or
bureau of the state or federal government, or any other legal entity
whatever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties;
(15) "Point source", any discernible, confined and discrete
conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel,
conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated
animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which
pollutants are or may be discharged;
(16) "Pollution", such contamination or other alteration of the
physical, chemical or biological properties of any waters of the state,
including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the
waters, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or
other substance into any waters of the state as will or is reasonably
certain to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental or
injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, industrial,
agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to wild
animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life;
(17) "Pretreatment regulations", limitations on the introduction of
pollutants or water contaminants into publicly owned treatment works or
facilities which the commission determines are not susceptible to treatment
by such works or facilities or which would interfere with their operation,
except that wastes as determined compatible for treatment pursuant to any
federal water pollution control act or guidelines shall be limited or
treated pursuant to this chapter only as required by such act or
guidelines;
(18) "Residential housing development", any land which is divided or
proposed to be divided into three or more lots, whether contiguous or not,
for the purpose of sale or lease as part of a common promotional plan for
residential housing;
(19) "Sewer system", pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and
force mains, and all other structures, devices, appurtenances and
facilities used for collecting or conducting wastes to an ultimate point
for treatment or handling;
(20) "Significant portion of his or her income" shall mean ten
percent of gross personal income for a calendar year, except that it shall
mean fifty percent of gross personal income for a calendar year if the
recipient is over sixty years of age, and is receiving such portion
pursuant to retirement, pension, or similar arrangement;
(21) "Site-specific permit", a permit written for discharges emitted
from a single water contaminant source and containing specific conditions,
monitoring requirements and effluent limits to control such discharges;
(22) "Treatment facilities", any method, process, or equipment which
removes, reduces, or renders less obnoxious water contaminants released
from any source;
(23) "Water contaminant", any particulate matter or solid matter or
liquid or any gas or vapor or any combination thereof, or any temperature
change which is in or enters any waters of the state either directly or
indirectly by surface runoff, by sewer, by subsurface seepage or otherwise,
which causes or would cause pollution upon entering waters of the state, or
which violates or exceeds any of the standards, regulations or limitations
set forth in sections 644.006 to 644.141 or any federal water pollution
control act, or is included in the definition of pollutant in such federal
act;
(24) "Water contaminant source", the point or points of discharge
from a single tract of property on which is located any installation,
operation or condition which includes any point source defined in sections
644.006 to 644.141 and nonpoint source pursuant to any federal water
pollution control act, which causes or permits a water contaminant
therefrom to enter waters of the state either directly or indirectly;
(25) "Water quality standards", specified concentrations and
durations of water contaminants which reflect the relationship of the
intensity and composition of water contaminants to potential undesirable
effects;
(26) "Waters of the state", all rivers, streams, lakes and other
bodies of surface and subsurface water lying within or forming a part of
the boundaries of the state which are not entirely confined and located
completely upon lands owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a single
person or by two or more persons jointly or as tenants in common and
includes waters of the United States lying within the state.
2000
644.016. When used in sections 644.006 to 644.141 and in standards,
rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to sections 644.006 to 644.141,
the following words and phrases mean:
(1) "Commission", the clean water commission of the state of Missouri
created in section 644.021;
(2) "Conference, conciliation and persuasion", a process of verbal or
written communications consisting of meetings, reports, correspondence or
telephone conferences between authorized representatives of the department
and the alleged violator. The process shall, at a minimum, consist of one
offer to meet with the alleged violator tendered by the department. During
any such meeting, the department and the alleged violator shall negotiate
in good faith to eliminate the alleged violation and shall attempt to agree
upon a plan to achieve compliance;
(3) "Department", the department of natural resources;
(4) "Director", the director of the department of natural resources;
(5) "Discharge", the causing or permitting of one or more water
contaminants to enter the waters of the state;
(6) "Effluent control regulations", limitations on the discharge of
water contaminants;
(7) "General permit", a permit written with a standard group of
conditions and with applicability intended for a designated category of
water contaminant sources that have the same or similar operations,
discharges and geographical locations, and that require the same or similar
monitoring, and that would be more appropriately controlled pursuant to a
general permit rather than pursuant to a site-specific permit;
(8) "Human sewage", human excreta and wastewater, including bath and
toilet waste, residential laundry waste, residential kitchen waste, and
other similar waste from household or establishment appurtenances;
(9) "Income" includes retirement benefits, consultant fees, and stock
dividends;
(10) "Minor violation", a violation which possesses a small potential
to harm the environment or human health or cause pollution, was not
knowingly committed, and is not defined by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency as other than minor;
(11) "Permit by rule", a permit granted by rule, not by a paper
certificate, and conditioned by the permit holder's compliance with
commission rules;
(12) "Permit holders or applicants for a permit" shall not include
officials or employees who work full time for any department or agency of
the state of Missouri;
(13) "Person", any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm,
company, public or private corporation, association, joint stock company,
trust, estate, political subdivision, or any agency, board, department, or
bureau of the state or federal government, or any other legal entity
whatever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties;
(14) "Point source", any discernible, confined and discrete
conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel,
conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated
animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which
pollutants are or may be discharged;
(15) "Pollution", such contamination or other alteration of the
physical, chemical or biological properties of any waters of the state,
including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the
waters, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or
other substance into any waters of the state as will or is reasonably
certain to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental or
injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, industrial,
agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to wild
animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life;
(16) "Pretreatment regulations", limitations on the introduction of
pollutants or water contaminants into publicly owned treatment works or
facilities which the commission determines are not susceptible to treatment
by such works or facilities or which would interfere with their operation,
except that wastes as determined compatible for treatment pursuant to any
federal water pollution control act or guidelines shall be limited or
treated pursuant to this chapter only as required by such act or
guidelines;
(17) "Residential housing development", any land which is divided or
proposed to be divided into three or more lots, whether contiguous or not,
for the purpose of sale or lease as part of a common promotional plan for
residential housing;
(18) "Sewer system", pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and
force mains, and all other structures, devices, appurtenances and
facilities used for collecting or conducting wastes to an ultimate point
for treatment or handling;
(19) "Significant portion of his or her income" shall mean ten
percent of gross personal income for a calendar year, except that it shall
mean fifty percent of gross personal income for a calendar year if the
recipient is over sixty years of age, and is receiving such portion
pursuant to retirement, pension, or similar arrangement;
(20) "Site-specific permit", a permit written for discharges emitted
from a single water contaminant source and containing specific conditions,
monitoring requirements and effluent limits to control such discharges;
(21) "Treatment facilities", any method, process, or equipment which
removes, reduces, or renders less obnoxious water contaminants released
from any source;
(22) "Water contaminant", any particulate matter or solid matter or
liquid or any gas or vapor or any combination thereof, or any temperature
change which is in or enters any waters of the state either directly or
indirectly by surface runoff, by sewer, by subsurface seepage or otherwise,
which causes or would cause pollution upon entering waters of the state, or
which violates or exceeds any of the standards, regulations or limitations
set forth in sections 644.006 to 644.141 or any federal water pollution
control act, or is included in the definition of pollutant in such federal
act;
(23) "Water contaminant source", the point or points of discharge
from a single tract of property on which is located any installation,
operation or condition which includes any point source defined in sections
644.006 to 644.141 and nonpoint source pursuant to any federal water
pollution control act, which causes or permits a water contaminant
therefrom to enter waters of the state either directly or indirectly;
(24) "Water quality standards", specified concentrations and
durations of water contaminants which reflect the relationship of the
intensity and composition of water contaminants to potential undesirable
effects;
(25) "Waters of the state", all rivers, streams, lakes and other
bodies of surface and subsurface water lying within or forming a part of
the boundaries of the state which are not entirely confined and located
completely upon lands owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a single
person or by two or more persons jointly or as tenants in common and
includes waters of the United States lying within the state.
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