TYPE OF BUSINESS / SPECIFIC USE REQUIRED OPERATING PERMIT(s)
Agricultural Packing Houses AW
Air Conditioning Repair AP (if coating or painting) and IW5
Aircraft Dismantling, Maintenance, Repair AP and IW or IW5 or IWP
Animal Grooming/Kennels IW5
Animal Hospital/Clinic IW5
Asphalt Plants
AP and IW or IW5
Automotive Repair IW5
Boat Manufacturing
AP and IW5
Boat Repair, Maintenance
AP and IW5 and MOP
Body Shops with Painting
AP and IW5
Carpentry Shop AP and IW5
Chemical Manufacturing
AP and IW or IW5 or IWP
Chemical or Medical laboratory
AP and IW5
Concrete Batch Plants
AP and IW5
Crematories (Human or Animal) AP
Doctors and Dentist with X-ray Developing
IW5 and One-Time Compliance Report for Dental Dischargers (40 CFR 441.50)
Dry Cleaners
AP (if using perchloroethylene “PERC”) and IW5
Food Processing Facilities
AP and GDO or IWP
Funeral Homes with Embalming AP (if cremations conducted on-site) and IW5
General – businesses that use, handle, store or generate hazardous materials
or hazardous waste
IW5
General – businesses inside welleld protection areas and served by septic tank systems IW6
General – businesses requiring handling, purchase or sale refrigerants containing
ozone-depleting compounds
APCF
General – businesses that use a potable water supply well PWO
General Construction Contractor IW5
Industrial Facilities
AP and IW or IW5 or IWP
Industrial/Commercial Laundry
IW or IW5 or IWP
Junkyards
AP and IW5
Machine Shop
AP and IW5
Marinas
AP and MOP
Metal Finisher
AP and IWP
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
AP and IWP
Photographic Film Processing IW5
Plastics Manufacturing
AP and IW or IW5 or IWP
Powder Coating
AP and IW5 or IWP
Precious Metals Handling
AP and IW5
Print Shop
AP and IW5
Resource Recovery/Scrap Metal Facilities
AP and SW
Restaurants/Food Service Establishments GDO
Rock Mining Operations
AP (if crushing activities on-site) and IW5
Silk Screening
AP and IW5
Stone Cutting IW5
Tire Sales and Related Services IW5
Transmission Repair Shop IW5
Transporters of Liquid Wastes and Hazardous Materials LW
Operating Permit Abbreviation Key:
AP – Air Operating Permit GDO – Grease Discharge IW – Industrial Facility MOP – Marine Facility
APCF – Stratospheric Ozone Protection IW5 – Industrial Facility IWP- Industrial Waste Pretreatment PWO – Potable Water Supply
AW – Agricultural Waste IW6 – Welleld Protection LW – Liquid Waste Transporters SW – Solid Waste
Please note that if your business type is not listed below it may not exempt you from the requirement of obtaining an operating permit.
To obtain a copy of the specic operating permit application, please visit our website at http://www.miamidade.gov/permits/ or to verify if you require
an operating permit contact us at (786) 315-2800.