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MO Rev Stat § 644.054 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.054 - Fees, billing and collection — administration, generally — fees to become effective, when — fees to expire, when — variances granted, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 5 histories   644.054. Fees, billing and collection — administration, generally — fees to become effective, when — fees to expire, when — variances granted, when. — 1. Fees imposed in sections 644.052 and 644.053 shall, except for those fees imposed pursuant to subsection 4 and subsections 6 to 13 of section 644.052, become effective October 1, 1990, and shall expire December 31, 2018. Fees imposed pursuant to subsection 4 and subsections 6 to 13 of section 644.052 shall become effective August 28, 2000, and shall expire on December 31, 2018. The clean water commission shall promulgate rules and regulations on the procedures for billing and collection. All sums received through the payment of fees shall be placed in the state treasury and credited to an appropriate subaccount of the natural resources protection fund created in section 640.220. Moneys in the subaccount shall be expended, upon appropriation, solely for the administration of sections 644.006 to 644.141. Fees collected pursuant to subsection 10 of section 644.052 by a city, a public sewer district, a public water district or other publicly owned treatment works are state fees. Five percent of the fee revenue collected shall be retained by the city, public sewer district, public water district or other publicly owned treatment works as reimbursement of billing and collection expenses.  2. The commission may grant a variance pursuant to section 644.061 to reduce fees collected pursuant to section 644.052 for facilities that adopt systems or technologies that reduce the discharge of water contaminants substantially below the levels required by commission rules.  3. Fees imposed in subsections 2 to 6 of section 644.052 shall be due on the date of application and on each anniversary date of permit issuance thereafter until the permit is terminated. ­­-------- (L. 1990 S.B. 582, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1156, A.L. 2000 S.B. 741, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1149 merged with S.B. 1165, A.L. 2009 H.B. 661 merged with H.B. 734, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1965, A.L. 2011 H.B. 89, A.L. 2013 H.B. 28 merged with H.B. 650, A.L. 2018 S.B. 782)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Nonseverability clause, 640.099
MO Rev Stat § 644.055 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.055 - Fees, nonpayment — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   644.055. Fees, nonpayment — penalty. — Any person who fails to pay the required fees shall be subject to a penalty of the amount of interest accrued on the unpaid fees at the rate of two percent for each month that the fee is delinquent. If the fees are not paid within six months of the due date, the attorney general of the state of Missouri shall initiate appropriate action for the collection of said fees and interest accrued. The court shall assess attorney fees and court costs against any delinquent permittee. All remaining moneys shall be placed in the appropriate subaccount of the natural resources protection fund. ­­-------- (L. 1990 S.B. 582)
MO Rev Stat § 644.057 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.057 - Clean water fee structure review, requirements.

Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 3 histories   *644.057. Clean water fee structure review, requirements. — Notwithstanding any statutory fee amounts or maximums to the contrary, the director of the department of natural resources may conduct a comprehensive review and propose changes to the clean water fee structure set forth in sections 644.052, 644.053, and 644.061. The comprehensive review shall include stakeholder meetings in order to solicit stakeholder input from each of the following groups: agriculture, industry, municipalities, public and private wastewater facilities, and the development community. Upon completion of the comprehensive review, the department shall submit a proposed fee structure with stakeholder agreement to the clean water commission. The commission shall review such recommendations at the forthcoming regular or special meeting, but shall not vote on the fee structure until a subsequent meeting. In no case shall the clean water commission adopt or recommend any clean water fee in excess of five thousand dollars. If the commission approves, by vote of two-thirds majority or five of seven commissioners, the fee structure recommendations, the commission shall authorize the department to file a notice of proposed rulemaking containing the recommended fee structure, and after considering public comments, may authorize the department to file the order of rulemaking for such rule with the joint committee on administrative rules pursuant to sections 536.021 and 536.024 no later than December first of the same year. If such rules are not disapproved by the general assembly in the manner set out below, they shall take effect on January first of the following calendar year and the fee structures set forth in sections 644.052, 644.053, and 644.061 shall expire upon the effective date of the commission-adopted fee structure, contrary to section 644.054. Any regulation promulgated under this subsection shall be deemed to be beyond the scope and authority provided in this subsection, or detrimental to permit applicants, if the general assembly, within the first sixty calendar days of the regular session immediately following the filing of such regulation disapproves the regulation by concurrent resolution. If the general assembly so disapproves any regulation filed under this subsection, the department and the commission shall not implement the proposed fee structure and shall continue to use the previous fee structure. The authority of the commission to further revise the fee structure provided by this section shall expire on August 28, 2024. Any fee, bond, or assessment structure established pursuant to the process in this section shall expire on August 28, 2024. ­­-------- (L. 2013 H.B. 28 merged with H.B. 650, A.L. 2014 S.B. 642, A.L. 2018 S.B. 782)  *Authority to revise fee structure expires 8-28-24.
MO Rev Stat § 644.058 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.058 - Water quality standards revised, when — evaluation to be conducted, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   644.058. Water quality standards revised, when — evaluation to be conducted, when. — Notwithstanding the provisions of section 644.026 to the contrary, in promulgating water quality standards, the commission shall only revise water quality standards upon the completion of an assessment by the department finding that there is an environmental need for such revision. As part of the implementation of any revised water quality standards modifications of twenty-five percent or more, the department shall conduct an evaluation which shall include the environmental and economic impacts of the revised water quality standards and criteria on a subbasin basis. This evaluation shall be conducted at the eight-digit hydrologic unit code level. The department shall document these evaluations and use them in making individual site-specific permit decisions. ­­-------- (L. 2014 S.B. 642 merged with S.B. 664)
MO Rev Stat § 644.059 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.059 - Agricultural storm water discharge exempt from permitting requirements — not considered unlawful.

Effective - 28 Aug 2018   644.059. Agricultural storm water discharge exempt from permitting requirements — not considered unlawful. — Agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture shall be exempt from permitting requirements set forth in sections 644.006 to 644.141. Agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture shall not be considered unlawful under subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection 1 of section 644.051 unless such discharges or return flows have entered waters of the state and have rendered such waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare, or to industrial or agricultural uses, or to wild animals, birds, or fish. For the purposes of this section, agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture shall include storm water and snow melt runoff, drainage, and infiltration, including water that leaves land as a result of the application of irrigation water, both surface and subsurface, from standard farming industry practices. This shall include but not be limited to cultivation and tillage of soil, and production, growing, raising, and harvesting of agricultural commodities and livestock. Nothing in this section shall be construed to effect, limit, or supersede sections 640.700 to 640.755 or any other law or regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations. ­­-------- (L. 2018 S.B. 782)
MO Rev Stat § 644.062 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.062 - Provisional variances granted, when — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 2013   *644.062. Provisional variances granted, when — procedure. — 1. The director may grant provisional variances whenever it is determined, upon application of adequate proof, that compliance on a short-term basis with the limitations prescribed in sections 644.006 to 644.141, or rule, standard, requirement, limitation, or order of the director adopted thereto due to conditions beyond reasonable control such as extended elevated temperatures or extreme drought conditions will result in an arbitrary or unreasonable hardship that exists solely because of the regulatory requirement in question and the costs of compliance are substantial and certain. If the hardship complained of consists solely of the need for a reasonable delay in which to correct a violation of sections 644.006 to 644.141, or rule, standard, requirement, limitation, or order of the director, the director shall condition the grant of such variance upon the posting of sufficient performance bond or other security to assure the completion of the work covered by the variance. In granting such provisional variance, the director shall consider the hardship imposed by requiring compliance on a short-term basis and adverse impacts that may result from granting the provisional variance. The director shall exercise wide discretion in weighing the equities involved and the advantages and disadvantages to the applicant and to those affected by water contaminants emitted by the applicant.  2. Any provisional variance granted by the director under this section shall be for a period not to exceed forty-five days. A provisional variance may be extended by the director up to an additional forty-five days, but in no event longer than ninety days in one calendar year.  3. Any person seeking a provisional variance shall file a petition for a variance with the director describing the conditions or circumstances giving rise to the request for relief. There shall be a two hundred fifty dollar filing fee payable to the state of Missouri with each petition for provisional variance. The director shall promptly investigate the petition and shall take action within fourteen days of the request. If the director denies the petition, the person may initiate a proceeding under section 644.061. The director may condition any provisional variance as sections 644.006 to 644.141, or rule, standard, requirement, limitation or order of the director may require.  4. If the director grants a provisional variance under this section, he or she shall promptly notify the petitioner and shall file a copy of the written decision with the commission. The commission must maintain, for public inspection, copies of all provisional variances filed with it by the director. ­­-------- (L. 2013 H.B. 28 merged with H.B. 650)  Effective 8-28-13 (H.B. 28); 10-11-13 (H.B. 650)  *H.B. 650 effective 10-11-13, see § 21.250. H.B. 650 was vetoed July 12, 2013. The veto was overridden on September 11, 2013.
MO Rev Stat § 644.066 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.066 - Public hearings, how conducted — transcripts available — discovery proceedings — hearings before single commissioner, when — final orders, how approved.

Effective - 28 Aug 2000   644.066. Public hearings, how conducted — transcripts available — discovery proceedings — hearings before single commissioner, when — final orders, how approved. — 1. At any public hearing all testimony taken before the commission shall be under oath and recorded stenographically. The transcript so recorded shall be made available to any member of the public or to the respondent or party to a hearing on a complaint, or any party to a hearing on a petition for variance, or appealing any order or determination of the director upon payment of the usual charge therefor.  2. In any such hearing, any member of the commission or the hearing officer shall issue in the name of the commission notice of hearing and subpoenas. Subpoenas shall be issued and enforced as provided in section 536.077. The rules of discovery that apply in any civil case apply to hearings held by the commission.  3. (1) All hearings to promulgate standards, rules, limitations, and regulations and to establish areas of the state shall be held before at least four members of the commission;  (2) All other hearings may be held before one commission member designated by the commission chairman or by a hearing officer who shall be a member of the Missouri Bar and shall be appointed by the commission chairman. The hearing officer or commission member shall preside at the hearing and hear all evidence and rule on the admissibility of evidence. The hearing officer or commission member shall make recommended findings of fact and may make recommended conclusions of law to the commission;  (3) All final orders or determinations or other final actions by the commission shall be approved in writing by at least four members of the commission. Any commission member approving in writing any final order or determination or other final action, who did not attend the hearing, shall do so only after reviewing all exhibits and reading the entire transcript. ­­-------- (L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321, A.L. 2000 S.B. 741)
MO Rev Stat § 644.071 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.071 - Judicial review authorized.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012, 2 histories   644.071. Judicial review authorized. — 1. All final orders or determinations of the commission or the director made pursuant to the provisions of sections 644.006 to 644.141 are subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, except that, the provisions of section 536.110 notwithstanding, all actions seeking judicial review of any final order or determination of the commission or the director that relates to permits affecting a utility shall be filed in the court of appeals instead of in the circuit court. No judicial review shall be available, however, unless and until all administrative remedies are exhausted.  2. In any suit filed pursuant to section 536.050 concerning the validity of the commission's standards, rules and regulations, the court shall review the record made before the commission to determine the validity and reasonableness of such standards, rules, limitations, and regulations and may hear such additional evidence as it deems necessary. ­­-------- (L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321, A.L. 2000 S.B. 741, A.L. 2011 H.B. 89, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1251)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Nonseverability clause, 640.099
MO Rev Stat § 644.082 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.082 - Discharging water contaminants, permit required — violation, penalties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1982   644.082. Discharging water contaminants, permit required — violation, penalties. — It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, use or maintain and discharge water contaminants from any water contaminant or point source or wastewater treatment plant unless he holds a permit from the commission. Any person violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined upon conviction at least one hundred dollars and not more than five hundred dollars and shall be required to apply for such a permit within thirty days. ­­-------- (L. 1982 S.B. 646)
MO Rev Stat § 644.091 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.091 - State or its subdivisions not to contract with violator.

Effective - 23 Jul 1973   644.091. State or its subdivisions not to contract with violator. — 1. No officer, agency or department of the state government, or of any political subdivision of this state shall enter into a contract with any person required to apply for a permit under the provisions of section 644.051 unless such person has applied for or received a permit pursuant to section 644.061.  2. No contract shall be entered into by any such governmental authority with any person who is held in contempt of any court order enforcing the provisions of sections 644.006 to 644.141. ­­-------- (L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321)  Effective 7-23-73
MO Rev Stat § 644.096 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.096 - State or its subdivisions may recover actual damages from violators.

Effective - 23 Jul 1973   644.096. State or its subdivisions may recover actual damages from violators. — In addition to other penalties prescribed in sections 644.006 to 644.141, the state, or any political subdivision or agency thereof, has a cause of action against any person violating the provisions of sections 644.006 to 644.141 for actual damages, including all costs and expenses necessary to establish or collect any sums under sections 644.006 to 644.141, and the costs and expenses of restoring any waters of the state to their condition as they existed before the violation, sustained by it because of the violation. The action shall be brought by the attorney general or a prosecuting attorney in any court where an action for injunctive relief hereunder could be brought. ­­-------- (L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321)  Effective 7-23-73
MO Rev Stat § 644.101 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.101 - Certain drinking water and water pollution projects, state may provide assistance.

Effective - 07 Jul 2009   644.101. Certain drinking water and water pollution projects, state may provide assistance. — The state may provide assistance, as funds are available, pursuant to this chapter, to any county, municipality, public water district, public sewer district, or any combination of the same, or any entity eligible pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, or the Clean Water Act, as amended, to assist them in the construction of public drinking water and water pollution control projects as authorized by the clean water commission. The state may provide assistance pursuant to this chapter, including but not limited to the purchase of water and/or wastewater revenue or general obligation bonds, bonds of any county, instrumentality of the state, state entity, municipality, public sewer district, public water district, community water system, nonprofit noncommunity water system or any combination of the same, or any entity eligible pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, or the Clean Water Act, as amended. Further, the state may provide additional assistance or subsidies to any eligible entity as described in this section in the form of principal forgiveness, negative interest loans, grants, or any combination thereof, to the extent allowed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as enacted by the 111th United States Congress, and within the process provided by the Missouri Constitution and revised statutes of the state of Missouri. ­­-------- (L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321, A.L. 1982 S.B. 646, A.L. 1987 H.B. 497, A.L. 1991 S.B. 185, A.L. 1993 H.B. 566, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1161, A.L. 2000 S.B. 741, A.L. 2009 H.B. 661)  Effective 7-07-09
MO Rev Stat § 644.102 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.102 - Matching grants for state revolving loan recipients.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   644.102. Matching grants for state revolving loan recipients. — In addition to those sums authorized prior to the effective date of this section, the board of fund commissioners of the state of Missouri, as authorized by Sections 37(c) and 37(e) of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Missouri, may borrow, on the credit of this state, the sum of thirty-five million dollars in the manner and for the purposes set out in chapters 640 and 644. ­­-------- (L. 1991 S.B. 185 § 1, A.L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 644.106 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.106 - State contributions limited — interest, limited — administrative fee allowed.

Effective - 18 Jun 1991   *644.106. State contributions limited — interest, limited — administrative fee allowed. — The grant contribution, from funds made available pursuant to sections 644.500 to 644.561, made toward the cost of such water pollution control projects shall not exceed fifty-five percent of the estimated reasonable cost thereof as determined by the clean water commission. The state may charge interest at or below market rates, on loans made pursuant to this chapter, except that the state may charge interest on loan payments, delinquent under the terms of the loan, not exceeding twenty percent per annum. The state may charge an administrative fee on assistance made pursuant to this chapter. ­­-------- (L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321, A.L. 1982 S.B. 646, A.L. 1987 H.B. 497, A.L. 1991 S.B. 185)  Effective 6-18-91
MO Rev Stat § 644.111 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.111 - Commission to administer all state funds.

Effective - 18 Jun 1991   644.111. Commission to administer all state funds. — The commission is the agency for the administration of such funds which are available for assistance from the state for this program. ­­-------- (L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321, A.L. 1982 S.B. 646, A.L. 1987 H.B. 497, A.L. 1991 S.B. 185)  Effective 6-18-91
MO Rev Stat § 644.116 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XL - Additional Executive Departments|Chapter 644 - Water Pollution|Section 644.116 - Rules and regulations to be adopted by commission — clean water commission to implement plan.

Effective - 09 Jun 1998   644.116. Rules and regulations to be adopted by commission — clean water commission to implement plan. — The commission's determination of the relative need, the priority of projects, and the standards of construction shall be based on rules and regulations as adopted by the commission pursuant to this chapter for wastewater projects. The clean water commission shall implement the intended use plan developed by the safe drinking water commission pursuant to section 640.107. ­­-------- (L. 1972 S.B. 424, A.L. 1973 S.B. 259, S.B. 321, A.L. 1982 S.B. 646, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1161)  Effective 6-09-98