Permits Needed for Woodworking Shop Businesses

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 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.

Open burning is the burning of any materials in which air contaminants are emitted directly into the air without first passing through a stack or chimney. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources does not issue permits for open burning. Prior to conducting any open burning, businesses and citizens should contact the city or county of jurisdiction for any local restrictions.

The department's Facts on Open Burning Under Missouri Regulations - PUB2047 fact sheet summarizes allowable and prohibited open burning under Missouri regulations. It does not include open burning restrictions that city or county governments may impose in addition to Missouri’s state regulations. 

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.

If your business includes a wood preserving and treating operation, you must obtain a Wood Treaters General Stormwater Permit MOR22B000 to address stormwater discharges from the property.