PURPOSE: This rule defines the active and abandoned dry cleaning facilities that are subject to the requirements of this chapter. This rule is designed specifically to protect the quality of groundwater in the state as well as to protect human health and the overall quality of the environment. This rule is promulgated on the authority of sections 260.900 to 260.960, RSMo.

1. (1) These rules, 10 CSR 25-17.010 through 10 CSR 25-17.170, apply to the owner or operator of any active facility or owner or operator of any abandoned facility, on which a dry cleaning facility is or was located, as the term is defined in 10 CSR 25-17.020. This includes coin-operated facilities. The term dry cleaning facility includes all contiguous land, structures and other appurtenances and improvements on the land used in connection with the dry cleaning facility.
2. (2) Dry cleaning facilities located in prisons, governmental entities, hotels, motels, and industrial laundry facilities are excluded from this rule. Facilities that use non-chlorinated solvents are exempt from these rules.

AUTHORITY: sections 260.900 and 260.905, RSMo Supp. 2005*. Original rule filed Oct. 3, 2005, effective May 30, 2006.

*Original authority: 260.900, RSMo 2000, amended 2005 and 260.905, RSMo 2000, amended 2005.