1. The director shall investigate each site listed in the registry to determine the relative priority of the site as provided in section 260.445.

2. The director shall for each site identify the:

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 260.450

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

(1) Address and site boundaries;

(2) Time period of use for disposal of hazardous waste;

(3) Name of the current owner and operator and names of reported owners and operators during the time period of use for disposal of hazardous waste;

(4) Names of persons responsible for the generation and transportation of hazardous waste disposed of; and

(5) Type, quantity and manner of hazardous waste disposal.

3. When preliminary evidence suggests further assessment is necessary, the director may assess the:

(1) Depth of water table at the site;

(2) Nature of soils at the site;

(3) Location, nature and size of aquifers at the site;

(4) Direction of present and historic groundwater flows at the site;

(5) Location and nature of surface waters at and near the site;

(6) Levels of contaminants, if any, in groundwater, surface water, air and soils at and near the site resulting from hazardous wastes disposed of at the site; and

(7) Current quality of all drinking water drawn from or distributed through the area in which the site is located, if the department determines that water quality may have been affected by the site.

4. The director shall maintain a site assessment file for each site listed in the registry. The file shall contain all information obtained pursuant to this section and shall be open to the public. The site materials in the file may be reproduced by any person. The department may impose a charge not to exceed the actual cost of reproduction for copies of file information.