Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 252 - Department of Environmental Quality › Chapter 305 - Laboratory Services › Section 252:305-1-11 - Required fees and other pricing

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a)
Fees.
Fees established for samples submitted by governmental
			 entities are listed in Appendix A. Fees established for samples submitted by
			 private citizens are listed in Appendix B.
(b)
Discount.
The State
			 Environmental Lab may discount certain analytical work for customers who
			 provide a large volume of prescheduled samples. Discounts will be determined by
			 the Director of Customer Services taking into account cost savings to the
			 agency.
(c)
Other
			 analysis.
The State Environmental lab will consider performing other
			 types of analyses upon special request. The fees for these tests will be based
			 upon method development costs, actual analytical costs and a $2.00 per sample
			 charge for processing of invoices and payments.
(d)
Supply and consumables
			 charges.
Unless otherwise specified by the Director of Customer
			 Services, the analytical fees reflected in these rules include sample
			 containers, sample digestion/extraction and any other consumables necessary to
			 perform the requested analytical work.
(e)
Other charges.
The State
			 Environmental Lab will consider accommodating extraordinary requests with
			 respect to data handling, quality assurance, sample handling or reporting. The
			 fees for these extraordinary requests will be based upon administrative costs,
			 actual personnel costs and any associated development costs.
(f)
Annual Fee Adjustment.
To
			 assist in meeting rising costs to the DEQ of the environmental services
			 associated with the laboratory services program, the fees set out in this
			 Section and Appendices A and B 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 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.