Server definition
- Hash
- sha256:bd5dc220b19253a826d1ae94b553800cd16eef03a3367e24ff6a09e23292bc79
- What it is
- What a remote MCP server returned when asked what it offers: 5 tools
The blob, as servednamed by its sha256
{
"instructions": "Determine which NPDES stormwater permit governs a US construction or industrial site, what that permit requires of it, and whether the state requires a credentialed preparer. No model: every answer is a deterministic projection of a cited permit, so identical input always returns an identical determination, and every requirement carries the permit section it came from. A confidence of \"unverified\" on any fact means it could not be confirmed against the official source and must be presented as unverified, not as fact. Where we have not read a jurisdiction's permit, the requirement list comes back EMPTY with an explanation in `notices`; that means unknown, never \"nothing is required\". Always surface `notices` verbatim. Two limits are absolute and belong in any answer you give a user: this service does not perform the physical site inspections the permit requires, which a qualified person must carry out on site, and in a state that requires a credentialed preparer any document generated from this data is a draft for that person to review, amend and sign rather than a compliant filed plan. This is regulatory information citing published permits, not legal or engineering advice, and it is not a permit. Every tool is free and keyless, throttled by IP; an API key only lifts the rate limit.",
"tools": [
{
"description": "Determine which NPDES stormwater permit governs a construction or industrial site, and what that permit requires of it. Returns coverage (\"required\", \"not_required\" or \"verify\") with the reason, the governing permit and the version the answer was computed against, the jurisdiction and its permitting authority, the permit's eligibility screens, the requirements that attach to THIS site (each with the permit section it came from and a `because` explaining why it applies here rather than in general), the step-by-step derivation, and `notices`. ALWAYS surface `notices` verbatim to the user: it carries the preparer-credential warning, any coverage gap, and the fact that we do not perform the physical site inspections the permit requires. Deterministic, no model in the path. Requirements come back ONLY where we hold the governing permit's rules; where a state permit is identified but unread, `requirements` is empty and a notice says so rather than substituting the federal permit's numbers, so never treat an empty list as \"nothing required\". Free, no API key needed.",
"inputSchema": {
"anyOf": [
{
"required": [
"disturbedAcres"
]
},
{
"required": [
"acres"
]
}
],
"properties": {
"acres": {
"description": "Alias for disturbedAcres.",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"activity": {
"description": "Required. Construction and industrial sites are governed by different permits and neither is assumed. \"industrial\" returns coverage \"verify\": EPA's Multi-Sector General Permit expired on 28 February 2026 and new operators cannot currently obtain coverage.",
"enum": [
"construction",
"industrial"
],
"type": "string"
},
"aridClimate": {
"description": "Arid, semi-arid or drought-stricken area, which may allow a reduced inspection frequency during the seasonally dry period.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"dischargesToImpairedWater": {
"description": "Discharges to a sediment or nutrient impaired water. OMIT IT if you do not know: it is never assumed false, and the determination reports the answer as unknown instead. It changes both the inspection frequency and the stabilisation deadline.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"dischargesToTier2Water": {
"description": "Discharges to a Tier 2, 2.5 or 3 water. Same tri-state handling as dischargesToImpairedWater.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"disturbedAcres": {
"description": "TOTAL acres the project will disturb over its life. This is what the 1-acre coverage threshold is measured against. `acres` is accepted as an alias.",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"endDate": {
"description": "ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Recorded on the determination.",
"format": "date",
"pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
"type": "string"
},
"federalFacility": {
"description": "EPA's permit covers federal facilities in some delegated states.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"maxDisturbedAcresAtOneTime": {
"description": "Greatest acreage disturbed AT ANY ONE TIME. A different quantity from disturbedAcres, and the one the stabilisation deadline actually turns on (2022 CGP Table 2): a project over five acres in total still gets the longer 14-day deadline if it phases the work so no more than five acres are open at once. OMIT IT if you do not know, and the determination assumes an unphased site and says so, rather than asserting phasing it was not told about.",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"onTribalLand": {
"description": "EPA retains NPDES authority in Indian country even inside a state that runs its own programme.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"partOfLargerPlan": {
"description": "Whether the project is part of a larger common plan of development or sale. Defaults to false. Send it explicitly: a half-acre lot inside a 40-acre subdivision IS covered, and this is the most commonly missed trigger in the permit.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"sectorCode": {
"description": "MSGP industrial sector code. Industrial sites only.",
"type": "string"
},
"startDate": {
"description": "ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Recorded on the determination.",
"format": "date",
"pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
"type": "string"
},
"state": {
"description": "Two-letter state, territory or DC code, e.g. \"CA\".",
"enum": [
"AK",
"AL",
"AR",
"AZ",
"CA",
"CO",
"CT",
"DC",
"DE",
"FL",
"GA",
"HI",
"IA",
"ID",
"IL",
"IN",
"KS",
"KY",
"LA",
"MA",
"MD",
"ME",
"MI",
"MN",
"MO",
"MS",
"MT",
"NC",
"ND",
"NE",
"NH",
"NJ",
"NM",
"NV",
"NY",
"OH",
"OK",
"OR",
"PA",
"PR",
"RI",
"SC",
"SD",
"TN",
"TX",
"UT",
"VA",
"VT",
"WA",
"WI",
"WV",
"WY"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"state",
"activity"
],
"type": "object"
},
"name": "determine_permit",
"outputSchema": null
},
{
"description": "Whether a state requires a credentialed preparer (California's Qualified SWPPP Developer, and the analogous credential elsewhere) to prepare or sign a stormwater pollution prevention plan, and whether that requirement bites for a site of this size. This is the answer that decides whether a generated document is the operator's deliverable or a DRAFT for a credentialed person to review and sign, so `documentStatus` states that consequence in plain language on every response. `gate` is \"open\", \"gated\", \"conditional\" or \"unknown\"; a state we have not verified returns \"unknown\" and must never be treated as open. `appliesToThisSite` is null when the trigger is an acreage threshold you did not give acres for, or a plan-scope test we cannot resolve from site facts. Free, no API key needed.",
"inputSchema": {
"properties": {
"acres": {
"description": "Acres disturbed. Optional but worth sending: several states gate only above an acreage threshold, and without it a conditional state can only name the threshold rather than resolve it.",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"state": {
"description": "Two-letter state, territory or DC code, e.g. \"CA\".",
"enum": [
"AK",
"AL",
"AR",
"AZ",
"CA",
"CO",
"CT",
"DC",
"DE",
"FL",
"GA",
"HI",
"IA",
"ID",
"IL",
"IN",
"KS",
"KY",
"LA",
"MA",
"MD",
"ME",
"MI",
"MN",
"MO",
"MS",
"MT",
"NC",
"ND",
"NE",
"NH",
"NJ",
"NM",
"NV",
"NY",
"OH",
"OK",
"OR",
"PA",
"PR",
"RI",
"SC",
"SD",
"TN",
"TX",
"UT",
"VA",
"VT",
"WA",
"WI",
"WV",
"WY"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"state"
],
"type": "object"
},
"name": "get_credential_gate",
"outputSchema": null
},
{
"description": "The requirements for a site: inspection frequency, stabilisation deadlines, Notice of Intent and Notice of Termination deadlines, corrective-action windows, record retention and buffer rules, each citing the permit section it came from. Same engine and same parser as determine_permit, projected down. The coverage verdict, the eligibility screens and the notices come with it, because a requirement list detached from whether coverage is triggered at all is a half-answer. An empty `requirements` array with a notice means we have not read that jurisdiction's permit, NOT that nothing is required. Free, no API key needed.",
"inputSchema": {
"anyOf": [
{
"required": [
"disturbedAcres"
]
},
{
"required": [
"acres"
]
}
],
"properties": {
"acres": {
"description": "Alias for disturbedAcres.",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"activity": {
"description": "Required. Construction and industrial sites are governed by different permits and neither is assumed. \"industrial\" returns coverage \"verify\": EPA's Multi-Sector General Permit expired on 28 February 2026 and new operators cannot currently obtain coverage.",
"enum": [
"construction",
"industrial"
],
"type": "string"
},
"aridClimate": {
"description": "Arid, semi-arid or drought-stricken area, which may allow a reduced inspection frequency during the seasonally dry period.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"dischargesToImpairedWater": {
"description": "Discharges to a sediment or nutrient impaired water. OMIT IT if you do not know: it is never assumed false, and the determination reports the answer as unknown instead. It changes both the inspection frequency and the stabilisation deadline.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"dischargesToTier2Water": {
"description": "Discharges to a Tier 2, 2.5 or 3 water. Same tri-state handling as dischargesToImpairedWater.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"disturbedAcres": {
"description": "TOTAL acres the project will disturb over its life. This is what the 1-acre coverage threshold is measured against. `acres` is accepted as an alias.",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"endDate": {
"description": "ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Recorded on the determination.",
"format": "date",
"pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
"type": "string"
},
"federalFacility": {
"description": "EPA's permit covers federal facilities in some delegated states.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"maxDisturbedAcresAtOneTime": {
"description": "Greatest acreage disturbed AT ANY ONE TIME. A different quantity from disturbedAcres, and the one the stabilisation deadline actually turns on (2022 CGP Table 2): a project over five acres in total still gets the longer 14-day deadline if it phases the work so no more than five acres are open at once. OMIT IT if you do not know, and the determination assumes an unphased site and says so, rather than asserting phasing it was not told about.",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"onTribalLand": {
"description": "EPA retains NPDES authority in Indian country even inside a state that runs its own programme.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"partOfLargerPlan": {
"description": "Whether the project is part of a larger common plan of development or sale. Defaults to false. Send it explicitly: a half-acre lot inside a 40-acre subdivision IS covered, and this is the most commonly missed trigger in the permit.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"sectorCode": {
"description": "MSGP industrial sector code. Industrial sites only.",
"type": "string"
},
"startDate": {
"description": "ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Recorded on the determination.",
"format": "date",
"pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
"type": "string"
},
"state": {
"description": "Two-letter state, territory or DC code, e.g. \"CA\".",
"enum": [
"AK",
"AL",
"AR",
"AZ",
"CA",
"CO",
"CT",
"DC",
"DE",
"FL",
"GA",
"HI",
"IA",
"ID",
"IL",
"IN",
"KS",
"KY",
"LA",
"MA",
"MD",
"ME",
"MI",
"MN",
"MO",
"MS",
"MT",
"NC",
"ND",
"NE",
"NH",
"NJ",
"NM",
"NV",
"NY",
"OH",
"OK",
"OR",
"PA",
"PR",
"RI",
"SC",
"SD",
"TN",
"TX",
"UT",
"VA",
"VT",
"WA",
"WI",
"WV",
"WY"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"state",
"activity"
],
"type": "object"
},
"name": "get_requirements",
"outputSchema": null
},
{
"description": "What the credential on this connection is allowed to do: the tier it resolves to (anonymous, sandbox, test key, or a live key on a plan), the per-minute burst, the daily or monthly allowance, and whether calls bill. Call it once at the start of a long task to pace yourself, rather than discovering the ceiling as a rate_limited error halfway through. Takes no arguments. Free, no API key needed.",
"inputSchema": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"name": "get_usage",
"outputSchema": null
},
{
"description": "Every state, territory and DC we hold a row for: NPDES authorisation status, the governing permit and its number, the agency name and URL, and the preparer-credential gate. Jurisdictions we have NOT verified are listed with confidence \"unverified\" and a note naming the agency to confirm with, rather than being omitted, because a jurisdiction missing from a coverage list reads as \"no permit applies\" and that is never what it means. Takes no arguments. Free, no API key needed.",
"inputSchema": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"name": "list_jurisdictions",
"outputSchema": null
}
]
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