The Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued a final Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part 1 Permit for the Doe Run Co.-Buick Resource Recovery Facility. The permit allows Doe Run to continue operating the facility and performing corrective action to address known releases to the environment.
Please be aware that any parties adversely affected or aggrieved by the department’s decision to issue the final Part 1 Permit, or specific conditions of the Part 1 Permit , may be entitled to pursue an appeal before the Administrative Hearing Commission by filing a written petition by July 22, 2026, as more fully described on page 5 of the final Part 1 Permit.
The Doe Run Co.-Buick Resource Recovery Facility is located at 18594 Highway KK in Boss, Missouri. Currently Buick operates a secondary lead smelting facility at the site. Buick recycles lead-acid batteries and other lead-bearing hazardous and non-hazardous wastes to recover the lead, trace metals, sulfuric acid and polyethylene plastic. The sulfuric acid is recycled and plastics are collected for shipment off-site for recycling. The recoverable lead-bearing material is smelted in one of three furnaces and resold as secondary lead. Doe Run stores and treats spent lead-acid batteries and other lead-bearing materials, which are classified as characteristic hazardous waste and listed hazardous waste.
Doe Run has been operating and performing long-term monitoring and maintenance activities at the site under a department-issued Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part 1 Permit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-issued Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Part 2 Permit and an Administrative Order on Consent. On Oct. 21, 2014, Doe run submitted a permit application to the department, to renew and update its existing Part 1 and Part 2 Permits. Doe Run replaced that application with a new application, received by the department on Sept. 18, 2020, and again on July 11, 2025.
After a thorough technical review of the permit application and opportunity for public comment on the draft Part 1 Permit, the department issued a final Part I Permit. The final permit allows Doe Run to continue storing hazardous waste in container storage areas and containment buildings, treating hazardous waste in miscellaneous treatment units and disposing of treated hazardous waste in the onsite landfill. This permit also requires implementing a facility-wide corrective action program to address known releases to the environment. EPA decided not to prepare a Part 2 Permit, since EPA has no site-specific conditions for the facility, beyond those contained in the Part 1 Permit, and Missouri is fully authorized for all permitting and corrective action activities at the facility. EPA intends to terminate the currently effective Part 2 Permit upon department-issuance of the Part 1 Permit.
The pubic can review an electronic copy of the final Part 1 Permit and summary and response to comments received on the draft Part 1 Permit below. Paper copies of the permit application, final permit and supporting documents are available at the Ozark Regional Library-Viburnum Branch, 1 Missouri Ave., Viburnum, Missouri, during their normal business hours, or the department's Elm Street Conference Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. An Open Records/ Sunshine Law Request will need to be submitted to review or obtain copies of the department's files.