204.320. Board of trustees of common sewer districts, powers--board of trustees of certain districts, powers--enforceability of orders--industrial user defined.

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204.320. Board of trustees of common sewer districts, powers--board of trustees of certain districts, powers--enforceability of orders--industrial user defined.

Board of trustees of common sewer districts, powers--board of trusteesof certain districts, powers--enforceability of orders--industrialuser defined.

204.320. 1. The board of trustees of any common sewerdistrict shall have power to pass all necessary rules andregulations for the proper management and conduct of the businessof the board of trustees, and of the district, and for carryinginto effect the objects for which the district is formed.

2. The board of trustees of a district in any first classcounty with a charter form of government which contains all orpart of a city with a population of three hundred fifty thousandor more inhabitants shall, subject to compliance with theexercise of lawful authority granted to or rules adopted by theclean water commission pursuant to section 644.026, RSMo,exercise primary authority to adopt, modify, and repeal, and toadminister and enforce rules and regulations with respect to:

(1) The establishment, construction, reconstruction,improvement, repair, operation, and maintenance of its sewersystems and treatment facilities;

(2) Industrial users discharging into its sewer systems ortreatment facilities;

(3) The establishment, operation, administration, andenforcement of a publicly owned treatment works pretreatmentprogram consistent with state and federal pretreatment standards,including inspection, monitoring, sampling, permitting andreporting programs and activities. The board of trustees may, inaddition to any pretreatment standards imposed under thissection, require of any user of its treatment facilities suchother pretreatment of industrial wastes as it deems necessary toadequately treat such wastes.

3. The rules and regulations adopted by the board oftrustees pursuant to subsection 2 of this section shall beapplicable, and enforceable by civil, administrative or otheractions within any territory served by its sewer systems ortreatment facilities and against any municipality, subdistrict,district or industrial user who shall directly or indirectlydischarge sewage or permit discharge of sewage into thedistrict's sewer system or treatment facilities.

4. The authority granted to the board by this section is inaddition to and not in derogation of any other authority grantedpursuant to the constitution and laws of Missouri, any federalwater pollution control act, or the rules of any agency offederal or state government.

5. The term "industrial user", as used in this section andin section 204.300, shall mean any nondomestic source ofdischarge or indirect discharge into the district's wastewatersystem which is regulated under section 307(b), (c), or (d) ofthe Clean Water Act, or any source listed in division A, B, D, E,or I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, or anysolid waste disposal operation such as, but not limited to,landfills, recycling facilities, solid or hazardous wastehandling or disposal facilities and facilities which store ortreat aqueous wastes as generated by facilities not located onsite and which dispose of these wastes by discharging them intothe district's wastewater system.