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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 252. Department of Environmental Quality |
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Chapter 616. Industrial Wastewater Systems |
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Subchapter 3. Permit Procedures |
SECTION 252:616-3-3. Fees
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- (a) Application fees. Application fees for new industrial wastewater system permits or to renew existing industrial wastewater system permits are non-refundableand are set forth below:(1) Class I - $300.00(2) Class II - $200.00(3) Class III and authorizations under a general permit- $100.00(4) Class V - $300.00(b) Annual fees. Permit holders shall submit payment to DEQ for annual fees upon receipt of an invoice from DEQ. Payments for annual fees received by DEQ shall be applied to the twelve-month period following the due date of the initial invoice issued by DEQ, but not past the expiration of the permit. Failure to pay an annual fee may result in suspension or termination of the permit. The annual fees are set forth below.(1) Industrial tank systems. The annual fees for industrial tank systems are as follows:(A) Class I or II - $970.00(B) Class III - $330.00(C) Class V - $440.00(2) Industrial surface impoundments. The annual fees for industrial surface impoundment systems are as follows:(A) Class I - $1,670.00 per impoundment(B) Class II - $1,120.00 per impoundment(C) Class III and authorizations under a general permit- $330.00 per impoundment(D) Class V - $440.00 per impoundment(3) Land application of industrial wastewater or industrial sludge. The holder of a permit for an industrial tank or impoundment system that allows for the land application of industrial wastewater and/or industrial sludge shall pay an annual fee of $690.00 in addition to the annual fees set forth in (1) and (2) of this subsection.(d) Consumer Price Index adjustment. To assist in meeting rising costs for the industrial wastewater program, the fees set out in (a), and (b) of this Section shall be automatically adjusted on July 1st 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 Department may round the adjusted fees up to the nearest dollar. The Department 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.