Mo. Code Regs. Ann. tit. 10, § 10-6.061
PURPOSE: This rule lists specific construction or modification projects that are exempt from the requirement to obtain permits to construct under 10 CSR 10-6.060.
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(1) Applicability.
(B) The provisions of 10 CSR 10-6.060 apply to any construction or modification which—
ting requirements set forth in sections (7), (8), (9), or any combination of these, of 10 CSR 10-6.060.
(3) General Provisions. This section provides exemptions from the requirement to obtain a construction permit. However, when determining whether a construction permit is required and what requirements will be included in the permit under 10 CSR 10-6.060, the emissions of the entire construction or modification, even those portions that meet an exemption under this rule, must be accounted for. The following construction or modifications are exempt from the requirement to obtain a permit under 10 CSR 10-6.060:
(A) Sources of Emissions.
combustion products and produces less than one hundred fifty (150) pounds per day of any air contaminant:
liquefied petroleum gas, or any combination of these with a heat input capacity of less than ten (10) million British thermal units (Btus) per hour;
less than one (1) million Btus per hour;
million Btus per hour heat input capacity provided the oven does not emit pollutants other than the combustion products and the oven is fired exclusively by natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, or any combination thereof; and
bakery products of less than ten thousand (10,000) pounds per operating day heated either electrically or exclusively by natural gas firing with a maximum heat input capacity of less than ten (10) million Btus per hour.
operations:
result solely from space heating by natural or liquefied petroleum gas with a heat input capacity of less than twenty (20) million Btus per hour. Incinerators operated in conjunction with these sources are not exempt unless the incinerator operations are exempt under another section of this rule;
systems not designed or used to control air pollutant emissions;
animal feeding operations and concentrated animal feeding operations as those terms are defined under 40 CFR 122.23 promulgated as of July 1, 2017, and hereby incorporated by reference in this rule, as published by the Office of the Federal Register. Copies can be obtained from the U.S. Government Publishing Office available at https://bookstore.gpo.gov/ or for mail orders, print and fill out an order form online and mail to U.S. Government Publishing Office, PO Box 979050, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000. This rule does not incorporate any subsequent amendments or additions. In addition, all manure storage and application systems associated with livestock markets or livestock operations that were constructed on or before November 30, 2003, are exempt. This exemption includes any construction or modification of a process, process equipment, emission unit, or air cleaning device after November 30, 2003, unless such change, installation, construction, or reconstruction involves an increase in the operation’s capacity to house or grow animals;
E. Grain handling, storage, and drying facility which—
dry, or store grain produced by the owner or operator) if—
hundred fifty thousand (750,000) bushels;
four thousand (4,000) bushels per hour; and
(500') from any recreational area, residence, or business not occupied or used solely by the owner or operator;
(II) Is in commercial or noncommercial use and—
existing facility(ies) does not exceed one hundred ninety thousand (190,000) bushels;
capacity in which there is no increase in hourly grain handling capacity and that utilizes existing grain receiving and loadout equipment; or
storage as a result of exceptional events (e.g., natural disasters or abundant harvests exceeding available storage capacity) that meets the following criteria:
lime or concrete floor with retaining walls of either constructed metal or concrete block. These structures may be either oval or round and must be covered with tarps while storing grain. These structures may be filled by portable conveyor or by spouts added from existing equipment;
conveyors directly or by overhead fill conveyors that are already in the buildings;
structures is less than one hundred (100) tons per year of each pollutant;
quality standards is not threatened; and
area;
purpose of preparing food for employee and guest consumption;
the following criteria:
nean and subaqueous beds where the deposits of sand and gravel are consolidated granular materials resulting from natural disintegration of rock and stone;
(500) tons per hour;
paved and cleaned, or watered, or properly treated with dust-suppressant chemicals as necessary to achieve good engineering control of dust emissions; and
trolling fugitive dust;
emissions to the ambient air;
but not including an anaerobic lagoon, that emits odors but no regulated air pollutants;
and physical analysis or experimentation, except equipment used for controlling radioactive air contaminants;
through plumbing traps for systems handling domestic sewage only. Systems which include any industrial waste do not qualify for this exemption;
site incineration of resident animals for which no consideration is received or commercial profit is realized as authorized in section 269.020.6, RSMo;
P. The following miscellaneous activities:
printing establishments or businesses primarily involved in photographic reproduction. This exemption is solely for office equipment that is not part of the manufacturing or production process at the installation;
adhesives with no volatile organic compound (VOC) in the adhesive formula;
presses;
midity chambers, and solar simulators provided no hazardous air pollutants are emitted by the process;
Q. The following internal combustion engines:
by hand without the assistance of any motorized or nonmotorized vehicle, conveyance, or device;
engines used in conjunction with pumps, compressors, pile drivers, welding, cranes, and wood chippers or internal combustion engines or gas turbines of less than two hundred fifty (250) horsepower rating; and
teaching;
biomass facilities:
with a maximum rated capacity of less than fifteen (15) cubic yards per hour;
grizzly feeder, conveyors, and storage, not including additional hauling activities associated with riprap production;
publicly owned treatment works (POTW), or related facilities specializing in the operation of, but not limited to, tub grinders powered by a motor with a maximum output rating of ten (10) horsepower; hoggers, shredders, and similar equipment powered by a motor with a maximum output rating of twentyfive (25) horsepower; and other sources at such facilities with a total throughput less than five hundred (500) tons per year; and
petroleum fuel products where the farming beds are located a minimum of three hundred feet (300') from the property boundary;
S. The following kilns and ovens:
million Btus per hour used for firing ceramic ware, heated exclusively by natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, electricity, or any combination thereof; and
or heat-treating provided no hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) or VOCs are emitted;
T. The following food and agricultural equipment:
crops;
This exemption does not apply to other slaughterhouse equipment such as rendering cookers, boilers, heating plants, incinerators, and electrical power generating equipment;
which the maximum horizontal inside cross-sectional area does not exceed twenty (20) square feet;
package, or store tea, cocoa, spices, or coffee;
grind, or package less than one thousand (1,000) pounds per year of dry food products such as seeds, grains, corn, meal, flour, sugar, and starch;
clean, or separate less than one thousand (1,000) tons per year of dry food products or waste from food production operations;
food products that are not vented to the outside atmosphere or which have the potential to handle less than one thousand (1,000) tons per year; (VIII) Coffee, cocoa, and nut roasters with a roasting capacity of less than fifteen (15) pounds of beans or nuts per hour, and stoners or coolers operated with these roasters;
used exclusively for the storage or loading of beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages produced for human consumption;
to produce less than three (3) million gallons of beer per year; and
potential to produce less than ten (10) tons per year of sulfured fruits and vegetables;
recovered solvent is used primarily on-site, the maximum heat input is less than one (1) million Btus per hour, the batch capacity is less than one hundred fifty (150) gallons, and there are no solvent vapor leaks from the equipment which exceed five hundred (500) parts per million;
V. The following surface coating and printing operations:
(I) Batch mixing of inks, coatings, or paints provided—
or paint manufacturing facility;
cleaned up as soon as possible, equipment is maintained according to manufacturer’s instruction, and property is kept clean;
of properly; and
covered containers;
coating operation where ultraviolet or electron beam energy is used to initiate a reaction to form a polymer network;
nonrefillable hand-held aerosol cans; and
coating materials with the powder applied by an electrostatic powder spray gun or an electrostatic fluidized bed;
equipment:
and other materials that do not emit a HAP or VOC in the process;
attachments;
wood chips, or wood shavings;
coatings and molding compounds in a paste form provided the solution contains less than one percent (1%) VOC by weight;
products without abrasive blasting;
gallons or less provided the process will not emit hazardous air pollutants;
blending of materials at ambient temperature to make waterbased adhesives provided the process will not emit hazardous air pollutants; (VIII) Equipment used exclusively for the packaging of lubricants or greases;
process will not emit hazardous air pollutants;
provided the process will not emit hazardous air pollutants;
applying of wax containing less than one percent (1%) VOC by weight;
and storing of plastic pellets; and (XIII) Solid waste transfer stations that receive or load out less than fifty (50) tons per day of nonhazardous solid waste;
X. The following liquid storage and loading equipment:
than five hundred (500) gallons; and
exclusively for the storage and dispensing of any aqueous solution which contains less than one percent (1%) by weight of organic compounds. Tanks and vessels storing the following materials are not exempt:
of more than ninety-nine percent (99.0%) by weight;
seventy percent (70.0%) by weight;
strength of more than thirty percent (30.0%) by weight; or
phase contains more than one percent (1%) VOC by weight;
operations:
equipment, and mixing and packaging equipment containing or processing soaps, vegetable oil, grease, animal fat, and nonvolatile aqueous salt solutions, provided appropriate lids and covers are utilized; and
catalysts;
cars, vans, light trucks, heavy trucks, and other vehicle body parts, bodies, and cabs, provided—
up as soon as possible, equipment is maintained according to manufacturers’ instructions, and property is kept clean. All waste coatings, solvents, and spent automotive fluids including, but not limited to, fuels, engine oil, gear oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, antifreeze, fresh or waste fuels, and spray booth filters or water wash sludge are disposed of properly. Prior to disposal, all liquid waste shall be stored in covered containers. In addition, all solvents and cleaning materials shall be stored in closed containers;
totally enclosed filtered spray booth or totally enclosed filtered spray area with an air intake area of less than one hundred (100) square feet. All spray areas shall be equipped with a running fan during spraying, and the exhaust air shall either be vented through a stack to the atmosphere or recirculated back into the shop through a carbon adsorption system. All carbon adsorption systems shall be properly maintained according to the manufacturer’s operating instructions, and the carbon shall be replaced at the manufacturer’s recommended intervals to minimize solvent emissions; and
stacks shall be located at least eighty (80) feet away from any residence, recreation area, church, school, child care facility, or medical or dental facility; AA. Sawmills processing no more than twenty-five (25) million board feet, green lumber tally of wood per year, in which no mechanical drying of lumber is performed, in which fine particle emissions are controlled through the use of properly engineered baghouses or cyclones, and which meet all of the following provisions:
(500') from any recreational area, school, residence, or other structure not occupied or used solely by the owner or operator of the facility or the owner of the property upon which the installation is located;
from debarking, planing, saw areas, etc. shall be removed or contained to minimize fugitive particulate emissions. Spillage of wood residues shall be cleaned up as soon as possible and contained such that dust emissions from wind erosion and/ or vehicle traffic are minimized. Disposal of collected sawmill residues must be accomplished in a manner that minimizes residues becoming airborne. Disposal by means of burning is prohibited unless it is conducted in a permitted incinerator; and
residues (sawdust, shavings, chips, bark) shall be covered with a tarp to achieve maximum control of particulate emissions; BB. Internal combustion engines and gas turbine driven compressors, electric generator sets, and water pumps, used only for portable or emergency services, provided that the maximum annual operating hours shall not exceed five hundred (500) hours. Emergency generators are exempt only if the emergency generator(s) meet the conditions listed in parts (3) (A)2.BB.(I), (3)(A)2.BB.(II), and (3)(A)2.BB.(III) along with one (1) or both conditions listed in parts (3)(A)2.BB.(IV) and (3)(A)2.BB.(V) below:
to provide backup power when electric power from the local utility is interrupted; and
non-resettable meter to measure the hours of operation; and
during emergency situations and for short periods of time to perform maintenance and operational readiness testing; and
in the construction or modification; or
included in the construction or modification are less than or equal to the levels specified in subparagraphs (3)(A)3.A. and (3) (A)3.B.;
machining, sawing, sanding, planing, buffing, or polishing solid materials, other than materials containing any asbestos, beryllium, or lead greater than one percent (1%) by weight as determined by Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), vendor material specifications and/or purchase order specifications, where equipment—
material is processed;
not conducted as part of the installation’s primary business activity;
inertial separator (cyclone), baghouse, or dry media filter. Other particulate control devices such as electrostatic precipitators or scrubbers are subject to construction permitting or a permitby-rule, unless otherwise exempted.
in their entirety, meet the requirements of subparagraph (3) (A)3.B. of this rule for each hazardous air pollutant; and that meet the requirements of either subparagraph (3)(A)3.A. or the requirements of both subparagraphs (3)(A)3.C. and (3) (A)3.D. of this rule for each criteria pollutant. The director may require review of construction or modifications otherwise exempt under paragraph (3)(A)3. of this rule if the emissions of the proposed construction or modification will appreciably affect air quality or the air quality standards are appreciably exceeded or complaints involving air pollution have been filed in the vicinity of the proposed construction or modification. Owners or operators using an exemption pursuant to this paragraph are subject to the reporting and recordkeeping provisions specified in section (4) of this rule.
construction or modification shall emit each pollutant at a rate of no more than the amount specified in Table 1.
Insignificant Emission Exemption Levels
Pollutant Particulate Matter 10 Micron (PM10) (Emitted solely by equipment) Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Nitrogen Oxides (NOX) Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Carbon Monoxide (CO)
tion or modification will emit a hazardous air pollutant at a rate of no more than one-half (0.5) pound per hour, or the screening model action level (SMAL) as established in subpara- TABLE 1.
Insignificance Level (lbs per hr)
1.0
2.75 2.75
2.75
6.88 graph (5)(F)6.A. of 10 CSR 10-6.060, whichever is less.
more than eight hundred seventy-six (876) pounds per year.
do not contain hazardous air pollutants will be no more than four (4) tons per year.
(B) Activities. Any activity that is—
of emission units within the same installation which do not involve either any appreciable change either in the quality or nature, or any increase in either the potential to emit or the effect on air quality, of the emissions of any air contaminant. Some examples are as follows:
circuitry in an electrostatic precipitator which does not measurably decrease the design efficiency of the unit;
the operation of a source or performance of a control device;
a normal maintenance program;
not involve the construction or modification of an emissions unit or associated air cleaning devices, and that do not involve either any appreciable change either in the quality or nature or any increase in either the potential to emit or the effect on air quality of the emissions of any air contaminant. Some examples are as follows:
materials, fuels, paints, and other coatings;
precleaner which is used as a precleaner in a fabric filter control system;
storage tank;
thermally efficient burner;
curing time; and
configuration of a material storage pile or material handling equipment;
involve either any appreciable change either in the quality or nature, or any increase either in the potential to emit or the effect on air quality, of the emissions of any air contaminant;
rule reflect a presumption that existing emission units which are changed or replaced by like-kind units shall be treated as having begun normal operation for purposes of determining actual emissions;
5. The following miscellaneous activities:
routine cleaning, janitorial services, use of janitorial products, groundskeeping, general repairs, architectural or maintenance painting, welding repairs, plumbing, roof repair, installing insulation, using air compressors and pneumatically operated equipment, and paving parking lots, provided these activities are not conducted as part of the installation’s primary business activity;
flares;
boilers; and
cleaning operations, and steam sterilizers; and
cleaning activities:
preparation, cleaning, or stripping by use of solvents or solutions that meet all of the following:
greater than three hundred two degrees Fahrenheit (302°F), and this initial boiling point must exceed the maximum operating temperature by at least one hundred eighty degrees Fahrenheit (180°F);
than thirty-five (35) gallons of liquid. For remote reservoir cold cleaners, capacity is the volume of the remote reservoir;
area less than seven (7) square feet, or for remote reservoir cold cleaners, the sink or working area has a horizontal surface less than seven (7) square feet;
fluid stream type arrangement. Fine, atomized, or shower type sprays are not exempt; and
does not apply to solvent wipe cleaning operations;
of less than one hundred (100) cubic feet and are controlled by a particulate filter;
abrasive in water;
single location for less than sixty (60) days; and
that employs only non-refillable handheld aerosol cans.
(C) of this rule are met.
AUTHORITY: section 643.050, RSMo Supp. 2025.* Original rule filed March 5, 2003, effective Oct. 30, 2003. Amended: Filed July 1, 2004, effective Feb. 28, 2005. Amended: Filed Dec. 1, 2005, effective July 30, 2006. Amended: Filed Oct. 1, 2008, effective May 30, 2009. Amended: Filed Nov. 25, 2019, effective Sept. 30, 2020. Amended: Filed May 15, 2025, effective Jan. 30, 2026.
*Original authority: 643.050, RSMo 1965, amended 1972, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2011, 2022.