Effective - 28 Aug 2013
*640.010. Department created — director, appointment, powers, duties — transfer of certain agencies. — 1. There is hereby created a department of natural resources in charge of a director appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The director shall administer the programs assigned to the department relating to environmental control and the conservation and management of natural resources. The director shall coordinate and supervise all staff and other personnel assigned to the department. He shall faithfully cause to be executed all policies established by the boards and commissions assigned to the department, be subject to their decisions as to all substantive and procedural rules and his or her decisions shall be subject to appeal as provided by law. The director shall recommend policies to the various boards and commissions assigned to the department to achieve effective and coordinated environmental control and natural resource conservation policies.
2. The director shall appoint directors of staff to service each of the policy making boards or commissions assigned to the department. Each director of staff shall be qualified by education, training and experience in the technical matters of the board to which he is assigned and his or her appointment shall be approved by the board to which he is assigned and he shall be removed or reassigned on their request in writing to the director of the department. All other employees of the department and of each board and commission assigned to the department shall be appointed by the director of the department in accord with chapter 36, and shall be assigned and may be reassigned as required by the director of the department in such a manner as to provide optimum service, efficiency and economy.
3. The air conservation commission, chapter 203 and others, the clean water commission, chapter 204 and others, are transferred by type II transfer to the department of natural resources. The governor shall appoint the members of these bodies in accord with the laws establishing them, with the advice and consent of the senate. The bodies hereby transferred shall retain all rulemaking and hearing powers allotted by law, as well as those of any bodies transferred to their jurisdiction. All the powers, duties and functions of the state environmental improvement authority, chapter 260 and others, are transferred by type III transfer to the air conservation commission. All the powers, duties and functions of the water resources board, chapter 256 and others, are transferred by type I transfer to the clean water commission and the board is abolished. No member of the clean water commission shall receive or shall have received, during the previous two years from the date of his or her appointment, a significant portion of his or her income directly or indirectly from permit holders or applicants for a permit under the jurisdiction of the clean water commission. The state park board, chapter 253, is transferred to the department of natural resources by type I transfer.
4. All the powers, duties and functions of the state soil and water districts commission, chapter 278 and others, are transferred by a type II transfer to the department.
5. All the powers, duties and functions of the state geologist, chapter 256 and others, are transferred by type I transfer to the department of natural resources. All the powers, duties and functions of the state oil and gas council, chapter 259 and others, are transferred to the department of natural resources by type II transfer. The director of the department shall appoint a state geologist who shall have the duties to supervise and coordinate the work formerly done by the departments or authorities abolished by this subsection, and shall provide staff services for the state oil and gas council.
6. All the powers, duties and functions of the land reclamation commission, chapter 444 and others, are transferred to the department of natural resources by type II transfer. All necessary personnel required by the commission shall be selected, employed and discharged by the commission. The director of the department shall not have the authority to abolish positions.
7. The functions performed by the division of health in relation to the maintenance of a safe quality of water dispensed to the public, sections 640.100 to 640.115, and others, and for licensing and regulating solid waste management systems and plans are transferred by type I transfer to the department of natural resources.
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(L. 1973 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 10, A.L. 1995 S.B. 65, A.L. 2013 H.B. 28 merged with H.B. 650)
Effective 8-28-13 (H.B. 28); 10-11-13 (H.B. 650)
*H.B. 650 effective 10-11-13, see § 21.250. H.B. 650 was vetoed July 12, 2013. The veto was overridden on September 11, 2013.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XL - Additional Executive Departments
Chapter 640 - Department of Natural Resources
Section 640.030 - Interagency plan, department of natural resources and department of conservation.
Section 640.033 - Department may not adopt certain rules.
Section 640.040 - Cleanup of controlled substance laboratories — rules — fund.
Section 640.065 - Revolving services fund created, use of moneys.
Section 640.075 - Brochures on Thomas Hart Benton murals and capitol art work, publication.
Section 640.090 - Implementation impact report, submitted to whom — criteria.
Section 640.095 - Penalties, imposition of — department duties, procedure.
Section 640.099 - Nonseverability of act.
Section 640.102 - Definitions.
Section 640.110 - Fund established — deposits, disbursements — unexpended balance not transferred.
Section 640.130 - Emergencies — actions to be taken — water systems in violation, penalties.
Section 640.131 - Administrative penalties.
Section 640.135 - Fluoride rules prohibited.
Section 640.136 - Fluoridation modification, notification to department and customers, when.
Section 640.141 - Citation of law — definition of public water system.
Section 640.145 - Report, contents — inapplicability, when.
Section 640.153 - Home energy audits — definitions — certification process.
Section 640.155 - Energy information, defined — confidentiality — penalty for disclosure.
Section 640.157 - Energy center to serve as coordinator of energy sustainability activities, duties.
Section 640.160 - Energy futures fund created, use of moneys.
Section 640.236 - Punitive and exemplary damages, exempt from, when.
Section 640.400 - Citation of law.
Section 640.403 - Definitions.
Section 640.409 - Surface and ground water monitoring program, duties of department, purpose.
Section 640.412 - Inventory to be maintained on ground and surface water uses, quantity and users.
Section 640.418 - Special water protection area, procedure to establish.
Section 640.423 - Designation as protection area removed, when.
Section 640.426 - Report by department annually, content.
Section 640.430 - Interagency task force established, members, meetings.
Section 640.600 - Grants in aid to certain public water supply sewer systems.
Section 640.605 - Purpose of grants.
Section 640.620 - Limitation on grants — exceptions.
Section 640.651 - Definitions.
Section 640.657 - Annual computation of actual energy cost savings.
Section 640.660 - Loan repayment.
Section 640.663 - Record-keeping requirements for borrowers.
Section 640.665 - Energy set-aside program fund.
Section 640.668 - Transfer of funds from industrial/commercial energy conservation loan fund.
Section 640.670 - Transfer of funds from local government energy conservation loan fund.
Section 640.674 - Rulemaking authority, procedure.
Section 640.676 - Public and private partnership agreements.
Section 640.678 - Administration of fund.
Section 640.680 - Administration of program moneys from sources other than appropriations.
Section 640.682 - Revenue bonds, purpose.
Section 640.686 - Form, details and incidents of revenue bonds.
Section 640.700 - Certain sections to apply only to facilities with a flush system.
Section 640.703 - Definitions.
Section 640.710 - Department to regulate facilities — rules — setback — exemption.
Section 640.730 - Facility to have containment structure.
Section 640.735 - Discharge to be reported, when, to whom.
Section 640.747 - Closure, funds to be returned, when.
Section 640.750 - Department to inspect, when.
Section 640.755 - Rulemaking, procedure — clean water commission to administer.
Section 640.758 - Does not apply to livestock markets.
Section 640.760 - Liquified manure, surface applied, required setback.