Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part II - State Board for Certification of Sewage Treatment Plant and Waterworks Operators › Chapter 302 - ADMINISTRATION OF THE WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEMS OPERATORS' CERTIFICATION PROGRAM › Subchapter B - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATION ACTIONS › Section 302.202 - Operator certification program fees

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a) An application for a certification action
				  or post-presentation credit must be accompanied by a nonrefundable check or
				  money order payable to the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." The applicant's
				  client ID should be printed on the check or money order.
(b) Applications to become an approved
				  training provider, course and conference approvals, course rosters and requests
				  for examination sessions must be accompanied by a nonrefundable check or money
				  order payable to the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
(c) The annual service fee paid by system
				  owners must be accompanied by a nonrefundable check or money order payable to
				  the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." The system Public Water Supply ID or NPDES
				  Permit Number should be printed on the check or money order. The annual service
				  fee for systems in subsection (d) is a fee per public water supply ID, NPDES
				  permit number (for discharge systems), Clean Streams Law permit number (for
				  nondischarge systems) or satellite collection system. If this annual service
				  fee is not remitted within 60 days of notification by the Department that the
				  fee is due, interest shall accrue on the entire amount from the original date
				  payment was due, at a rate of 12% per annum until payment is
				  remitted.
(d) Fees shall be paid
				  into the State Treasury into a special restricted revenue account in the
				  General Fund known as the Safe Drinking Water Account administered by the
				  Department for use in protecting the public from the hazards of unsafe drinking
				  water and which funds are hereby appropriated to the Department for purposes
				  authorized in the act.
(e) The fees
				  are as follows:
Operators:
Initial Certification Class A, B, C, D
					 ....................$150
Initial Certification Class Dc, Class E
					 ....................$100
Certification through Reciprocity Class A, B, C,
					 D....................$150
Certification through Reciprocity Class Dc; Class
					 E....................$100
Certificate Renewal....................$60
Examination Session....................$35
Replacement of Certificate or Pocket Card
					 ....................$25
Post-presentation Credit Application
					 ....................$250
Training:
Training Provider Approval Application....................
					 $90
Brief Course Approval.................... $115
Full Course Approval.................... $300
Conference Approval.................... $70
Course Rosters.................... $1 per name
Classroom Courses offered by the Department are $10 per
					 contact hour maximum per person.
Web-based Courses offered by the Department are $30 per
					 contact hour maximum per person.
Onsite Training offered by the Department is $1,600 per
					 event.
Approved Examination Providers:
Ten or more examination sessions per
					 year.................... $800
Five to ten examination sessions per
					 year.................... $700
Two to five examination sessions per
					 year.................... $600
One examination session per year....................
					 $400
Owners:
Annual Service Fee Class A System....................
					 $500
Annual Service Fee Class B System....................
					 $150
Annual Service Fee Class C System....................
					 $100
Annual Service Fee Class D and E
					 Systems.................... $65
(f) An operator holding a valid certificate
				  as of September 18, 2010, is not required to pay the initial certification fees
				  identified in subsection (e). This operator is subject to all other fees in
				  this section.
(g) The fees
				  identified in subsection (e) are in addition to any fees charged by an approved
				  examination provider as defined in §
										302.602 (relating to approved
				  examination providers)
(h) The fees
				  identified in subsection (e) related to course approval are a one-time fee
				  assessed for the course. Training providers that have courses approved as of
				  September 18, 2010, are not required to pay this fee for these approved
				  courses.
(i) A conference approval
				  fee is a one-time fee assessed for the entire conference and is not based on
				  the number of training sessions in the conference.
(j) Persons regulated by the act will not pay
				  more than a total of $10,000 annually to the Commonwealth for operator
				  certification fees specified under subsection (e).
(k) Federal or State agencies that provide
				  funding to the Department through terms and conditions of a mutual agreement
				  for the administration of this program will not be subject to the fees in
				  subsection (e).
(l) The Department
				  will review the adequacy of the fees established in this section at least once
				  every 3 years and provide a written report to the EQB. The report will identify
				  any disparity between the amount of program income generated by the fees and
				  the costs to administer these programs, and it will contain recommendations to
				  modify fees to eliminate the disparity, including recommendations for
				  regulatory amendments to modify program fees.
This section cited in 25 Pa. Code §
												302.201 (relating to form of
						application); 25 Pa. Code §
												302.301 (relating to board
						procedures for certification action); and 25 Pa. Code §
												302.603 (relating to examination
						eligibility).