Permits Needed for Sawmill Businesses

If your business is required to obtain a Part 70 Operating Permits but accepts voluntary, practically enforcement limitation to reduce emissions to less than 100 tons per year of any regulated pollutant and is less than 10 tons per year of any single hazardous air pollutant and less than 25 tons per year of any combined hazardous air pollutant, you may require an Air Intermediate Operating Permit to address potential air emissions.

If your business plans to construct a new installation or modify an existing minor installation and the project has the potential to emit more than major emission levels of a regulated air containment or construct a new installation or modify an existing major installation and the project has the potential to emit more than the minor levels per year, you may require an Air Major Construction Permit Sections (7), (8) & (9) to address potential air emissions.

If your business plans to construct a new installation or modify an existing minor installation and the project has the potential to emit less than major source levels per year; or you plan to construct a new installation or modify an existing major installation and the project has the potential to emit less than the minor levels per year, you may require an Air Minor Construction Permit to address potential air emissions.

If your business has the potential to emit greater than 100 tons per year of any regulated pollutant, has the potential to emit greater than 100 tons per year of any single hazardous air pollutant, or greater than 25 tons per year of combined hazardous air pollutants, or is required by a New Source Performance Standard or a Maximum Achievable Control Technology, you may require an Air Part 70 Operating Permit.

If you or your business plans to transport hazardous waste including waste oil, explosives, gases, flammable and combustible liquids, flammable solids, oxidizers and organic peroxides, poisons, radioactive materials, corrosives or infectious waste, you must obtain a Hazardous/ Infectious Waste Transporter License.

If your business is a no-discharge, private or domestic wastewater treatment facility with design flows of less than 50,000 gallons per day and land apply the wastewater, design flows of less than 50,000 gallons per day and plan to land apply the wastewater, you must obtain a Land Application of Domestic Wastewater MOG823000 master general permit.

If your business plans to operate a primary lumber or wood product operation including sawing rough lumber and timber from logs and bolts, you must obtain a Lumber and Wood Primary General Stormwater Permit MOR22A00 to address stormwater discharges from the property. In addition, if your facility is engages in the secondary processing and manufacturing of lumber and wood products, you may need this permit to address stormwater discharges from the property.

If your business plans to construct a public water system that will supply drinking water to the public, you must obtain a Public Drinking Water Construction Permit. You must obtain this permit if you also plan to complete the following construction projects to the water system: waterline extensions, waterline replacements, drilling water supply well, construction a storage tank, adding a disinfection system, treatment changes, building a pump station or other improvements or modifications. A public water system has at least 15 service connections or serves at least 25 people at least 60 days out of the year. If your business plans to connect to a permitted public water system, then you are not required to obtain this permit.

If your business plans to operate a public water system that supplies drinking water to the public, you must obtain a Public Drinking Water Permit to Dispense. A public water system has at least 15 service connections or serves at least 25 people at least 60 days out of the year. If your business plans to connect to a permitted public water system, then you are not required to obtain this permit.

If you own or operate a water treatment plant and plan to filter backwash water and solids, plan to operate a no-discharge sludge holding system, or plan to land apply sludge from the water treatment plant, you must obtain a Water Treatment Plant Settling Basins MOG640000 master general permit.