249.820. Certain municipalities may adopt ordinances necessary for compliance with law--enforceability--industrial user, defined. - Missouri Statutes

Certain municipalities may adopt ordinances necessary for compliancewith law--enforceability--industrial user, defined.

249.820. 1. All municipalities with a population of morethan one hundred thousand inhabitants located entirely within acounty of the first classification with a charter form ofgovernment which contains all or part of a city with a populationof three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants with publiclyowned treatment works required to operate national pretreatmentprograms may adopt all necessary ordinances for compliance withfederal and state pretreatment requirements and federal and statewater pollution control laws and regulations, and shall exerciseprimary authority to adopt, modify, and repeal, and to administerand enforce ordinances 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 sanitary andstorm sewer system or treatment facilities; and

(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 municipality may, inaddition to any pretreatment standards imposed under thissection, require of any user of its treatment facilities suchother pretreatment, inspection, reporting programs for industrialwastes as it deems necessary to adequately treat such wastes.

2. The ordinances adopted by the municipalities pursuant tosubsection 1 of this section shall be applicable and enforceableby administrative, civil, or other action within any territoryserved by its sewer systems or treatment facilities and againstany industrial user, subdistrict, district, or municipality whoshall directly or indirectly discharge wastewaters or permitdischarge of wastewaters into the municipal sewer systems ortreatment facilities.

3. The authority granted to the municipality by thissection is in addition to and not in derogation of any otherauthority granted pursuant to the constitution and laws ofMissouri, any federal water pollution control act, or the rulesof any agency of federal or state government.

4. The term "industrial user", as used in sections 249.820and 249.822, means any nondomestic source of discharge orindirect discharge into the district's wastewater system which isregulated under section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Clean WaterAct, or any source listed in division A, B, D, E, or I of theStandard Industrial Classification Manual, or any solid wastedisposal operation such as, but not limited to, landfills,recycling facilities, solid or hazardous waste handling ordisposal facilities and facilities which store or treat aqueouswastes as generated by facilities not located on site and whichdispose of these wastes by discharging them into the district'swastewater system.

(L. 1992 H.B. 1307 § 1)

Effective 4-7-92