Virginia Administrative Code › Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT › Agency 25 - STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 20 - FEES FOR PERMITS AND CERTIFICATES › Part III - Determination of Fee Amount › Section 9VAC25-20-142 - Permit maintenance fees

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. The following
				  annual permit maintenance fees apply to each individual VPDES and VPA permit,
				  including expired permits that have been administratively continued, except
				  those exempted by
				  9VAC25-20-50 B or
				  9VAC25-20-60 A 4:
1. Base fee rate for Virginia Pollutant
				  Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permitted facilities. (Note: All flows
				  listed in the table below are facility "design" flows.)
VPDES Industrial Major
$7,876
VPDES Municipal Major/Greater Than 10
								MGD
$7,794
VPDES Municipal Major/2 MGD - 10
								MGD
$7,138
VPDES Municipal Major/Less Than 2
								MGD
$6,317
VPDES Industrial Minor/No Standard
								Limits
$3,347
VPDES Industrial Minor/Standard
								Limits
$1,969
VPDES Industrial Minor/Water Treatment
								System
$1,969
VPDES Industrial Stormwater
$2,363
VPDES Municipal Minor/Greater Than 100,000
								GPD
$2,461
VPDES Municipal Minor/10,001 GPD - 100,000
								GPD
$1,969
VPDES Municipal Minor/1,001 GPD - 10,000
								GPD
$1,772
VPDES Municipal Minor/1,000 GPD or
								Less
$656
2.
				  Base fee rate for Virginia Pollution Abatement (VPA) permits.
VPA Industrial Wastewater Operation/Land
								Application of 10 or More Inches Per Year
$2,461
VPA Industrial Wastewater Operation/Land
								Application of Less Than 10 Inches Per Year
$1,723
VPA Industrial Sludge Operation
$1,231
VPA Combined Sludge Operation - Industrial Sludges
								(excluding water treatment plant residuals) and Municipal
								Biosolids
$1,231
VPA Municipal Wastewater Operation
$2,215
VPA Municipal Biosolids Operation
$100
VPA Concentrated Animal Feeding
								Operation
(Reserved)
VPA Intensified Animal Feeding
								Operation
(Reserved)
All other operations not specified
								above
$123
3.
				  The amount of the annual permit maintenance fee due from the owner for VPDES
				  and VPA permits for a specified year as required by
				  9VAC25-20-40 C
				  shall be calculated according to the following formulae:
F =
B x C
C =
1 + [DELTA]CPI
[DELTA]CPI =
CPI - 215.15
215.15
Where:
F = the permit maintenance fee amount due for the specified
					 calendar year, expressed in dollars.
B = the base fee rate for the type of VPDES or VPA permit
					 from subdivision 1 or 2 of this subsection, expressed in dollars.
C = the Consumer Price Index adjustment factor.
[DELTA] CPI = the difference between CPI and 215.15 (the
					 average of the Consumer Price Index values for all-urban consumers for the
					 12-month period ending on April 30, 2009), expressed as a proportion of 215.15.
CPI = the average of the Consumer Price Index values for
					 all-urban consumers for the 12-month period ending on April 30 of the calendar
					 year before the specified year for which the permit maintenance fee is due.
					 (The Consumer Price Index for all-urban consumers is published by the U.S.
					 Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. All items,
					 CUUR0000SA0).
For example, if calculating the 2010 permit maintenance fee
					 (F) for a VPDES Industrial Major source:
CPI = 215.15 (the average of CPI values from May 1, 2008,
					 to April 30, 2009, inclusive would be used for the 2010 permit maintenance fee
					 calculation).
[DELTA]CPI = zero for the 2010 permit maintenance fee
					 calculation (i.e., (CPI - 215.15)/215.15 = (215.15 - 215.15)/215.15 = 0).
					 (Note: [DELTA]CPI for other years would not be zero.)
C = 1.0 for the 2010 permit maintenance fee calculation
					 (i.e., 1 + [DELTA]CPI = 1 + 0 = 1.0).
B = $7,876 (i.e. the value for a VPDES Industrial Major
					 source, taken from subdivision 1 of this subsection).
F = $7,876 for the 2010 permit maintenance fee calculation
					 for this VPDES Industrial Major source (i.e., $7,876 x 1.0 =
					 $7,876).
4. Permit
				  maintenance fees (F) calculated for each facility shall be rounded to the
				  nearest dollar.
5. The total amount
				  of permit fees collected by the department (permit maintenance fees plus permit
				  application fees) shall not exceed 50% of direct costs for administration,
				  compliance, and enforcement of VPDES and VPA permits. The director shall take
				  whatever action is necessary to ensure that this limit is not
				  exceeded.