The Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued a final Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part I Permit for the former Bannister Federal Complex facility. These permits require the company to continue performing post-closure and corrective action activities at its Kansas City facility.
Please be aware that any parties adversely affected or aggrieved by the department’s decision to issue the final Part I Permit, or specific conditions of the Part I Permit, may be entitled to pursue an appeal before the Administrative Hearing Commission by filing a written petition by Oct. 16, 2025, as more fully described on page 12 of the final Part I Permit.
The Bannister Complex, formerly the Bannister Federal Complex, is located at 1500-2012 E. Bannister Road in Kansas City, Missouri. From 1942 until November 2017, the property was a federal government-owned, contractor-operated military installation. Historically, the facility was used to build aircraft engines for the Navy and later manufacture non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. The site is considered a closed hazardous waste storage and disposal facility. Two lagoons and an underground tank farm were operated on part of the property. Releases from the underground tank farm, a trichloroethylene reclamation facility, a plating building and other industrial practices resulted in soil and groundwater contamination. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accepted the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) closure report and certification for the hazardous waste management units; however, because groundwater contaminated with hazardous constituents remained after closure, these areas were required to go through a period of post-closure care.
Bannister Transformation & Development LLC (BT&D) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have been conducting post-closure and corrective action activities on their respective portions of the site under a department-issued Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part 1 Permit and EPA-issued Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Part 2 Permit. On July 17, 2024, the current site owners replaced the original 2009 renewal application with a new application. After a thorough technical review of the permit application and opportunity for public comment on the draft permit, the department issued a final Part 1 Permit. The final permit requires the permittees to continue monitoring the groundwater and maintain the caps over the closed hazardous waste management units, and to maintain vapor intrusion mitigation systems at the site.
EPA decided not to issue a Part 2 Permit, since EPA has no site-specific conditions for the facility, beyond those contained in the final Part 1 Permit, and Missouri is fully authorized for all permitting, post-closure and corrective action activities at the facility. EPA will terminate the continued Part 2 Permit upon department issuance of the final Part 1 Permit.
The pubic can review an electronic copy of the final Part I Permit below. Paper copies of the complete permit application, draft permit and supporting documents are available during normal business hours at the Mid-Continent Public Library's Blue Ridge Branch, 9253 Blue Ridge Blvd., Kansas City, MO, during their normal business hours, or the department's, Elm Street Conference Center, Jefferson City, MO. An Open Records/ Sunshine Law Request will need to be submitted to review or obtain copies of the department's files.