SECTION 252:301-1-9. Fees

(a)   Applicable fees. The following fees apply:

(1)   Initial accreditation $1,140.00

(2)   Interim accreditation 671.00

(3)   Renewal fee 34.00

(4)   Renewal late fee 335.00

(5)   Accreditation amendment 67.00

(6)   Fee for 1 category 470.00

(7)   Fee for 2 categories 940.00

(8)   Fee for 3 categories 1,410.00

(9)   Fee for 4 categories 1,880.00

(10)   Fee for 5 or more categories 2,350.00

(11)   On-site evaluation Reimbursable Expense

(b)   Renewal. Fees to renew accreditation consist of the renewal application fee and the applicable category fee.

(c)   Public water supply system fee exemption. There is no laboratory accreditation fee for public water supply systems that pay the minimum annual public water supply regulatory service rate fee in accordance with 27A O.S. § 2-6-306.

(d)   Annual fee adjustment. To assist in meeting rising costs to the DEQ of the environmental services and regulatory programs associated with the laboratory accreditation program, the fees set out in this Section shall be automatically adjusted on July 1^st every year to correspond to the percentage, if any, by which the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the most recent calendar year exceeds the CPI for the previous calendar year. The DEQ may round the adjusted fees up to the nearest dollar. The DEQ may waive collection of an automatic increase in a given year if it determines other revenues, including appropriated state general revenue funds, have increased sufficiently to make the funds generated by the automatic adjustment unnecessary in that year. A waiver does not affect future automatic adjustments.

(1)   Any automatic fee adjustment under this subsection may be averted or eliminated, or the adjustment percentage may be modified, by rule promulgated pursuant to the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act. The rulemaking process may be initiated in any manner provided by law, including a petition for rulemaking pursuant to 75 O.S. § 305 and OAC 252:4-5-3 by any person affected by the automatic fee adjustment.

(2)   If the United States Department of Labor ceases to publish the CPI or revises the methodology or base years, no further automatic fee adjustments shall occur until a new automatic fee adjustment rule is promulgated pursuant to the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act.

(3)   For purposes of this subsection, "Consumer Price Index" or "CPI" means the Consumer Price Index - All Urban Consumers (U.S. All Items, Current Series, 1982-1984=100, CUUR0000SA0) published by the United States Department of Labor. The CPI for a calendar year is the figure denoted by the Department of Labor as the "Annual" index figure for that calendar year.

(e)   An On-site evaluation fee shall be calculated at actual cost, not to exceed $10,000 per individual laboratory, and includes but is not limited to the following: assessor(s) time and labor (preliminary document review, total travel, time-on-site, report preparation, and corrective action review), transportation, per diem (if required), as described in 252:301-5-4. The on-site evaluation will be invoiced at the closing of the evaluation.

[Source: Added at 25 Ok Reg 2247, eff 7-11-08; Amended at 36 Ok Reg 1595, eff 9-15-19]