Virginia Administrative Code › Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT › Agency 25 - STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 875 - VIRGINIA EROSION AND STORMWATER MANAGEMENT REGULATION › Part VIII - Fees › Section 9VAC25-875-1400 - Fees for individual permit or coverage under the General Permit of Discharges of Stormwater from Construction Activities

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following total fees to be paid by an applicant apply
					 to any operator seeking coverage under a General VPDES Permit for Discharges of
					 Stormwater from Construction Activities or a state agency or federal entity
					 that does not file standards and specifications or an individual permit issued
					 by the department. On and after approval by the department of a VESMP authority
					 for coverage under the General VPDES Permit for Discharges of Stormwater from
					 Construction Activities, no more than 50% of the total fee to be paid by an
					 applicant set out in this part shall be due at the time that a stormwater
					 management plan or an initial stormwater management plan is submitted for
					 review in accordance with
					 9VAC25-875-530. The remaining total
					 fee balance to be paid by an applicant shall be due prior to the issuance of
					 coverage under the General VPDES Permit for Discharges of Stormwater from
					 Construction Activities.
When a site is purchased for development within a
					 previously permitted common plan of development or sale, the applicant shall be
					 subject to fees ("total fee to be paid by applicant" column) in accordance with
					 the disturbed acreage of the applicant's site according to the following
					 table.
Fee type
Total fee to be paid by applicant
								(includes both VESMP authority and department portions where applicable)
Department portion of "total fee to
								be paid by applicant" (based on 28% of total fee paid*)
Land-Disturbing Activity in a Chesapeake Bay
								Preservation Area (not subject to General Permit coverage; sites within
								designated areas of Chesapeake Bay Act localities with land-disturbance acreage
								equal to or greater than 2,500 square feet and less than one acre)
$290
$0
General / Stormwater Management - Small
								Construction Activity/Land-Disturbing Activity in a Chesapeake Bay Preservation
								Area (not subject to General Permit coverage)/Land Clearing (Single-family
								detached residential structures within or outside a common plan of development
								or sale with land-disturbance acreage less than five acres)
$209
$0
General / Stormwater Management - Small
								Construction Activity/Land Clearing (Areas within common plans of development
								or sale with land-disturbance acreage less than one acre, except for
								single-family detached residential structures)
$290
$81
General / Stormwater Management - Small
								Construction Activity/Land Clearing (Sites or areas within common plans of
								development or sale with land-disturbance acreage equal to or greater than one
								acre and less than five acres)
$2,700
$756
General / Stormwater Management - Large
								Construction Activity/Land Clearing (Sites or areas within common plans of
								development or sale with land-disturbance acreage equal to or greater than five
								acres and less than 10 acres)
$3,400
$952
General / Stormwater Management - Large
								Construction Activity/Land Clearing (Sites or areas within common plans of
								development or sale with land-disturbance acreage equal to or greater than 10
								acres and less than 50 acres)
$4,500
$1,260
General / Stormwater Management - Large
								Construction Activity/Land Clearing (Sites or areas within common plans of
								development or sale with land-disturbance acreage equal to or greater than 50
								acres and less than 100 acres)
$6,100
$1,708
General / Stormwater Management - Large
								Construction Activity/Land Clearing (Sites or areas within common plans of
								development or sale with land-disturbance acreage equal to or greater than 100
								acres)
$9,600
$2,688
Individual VPDES Permit for Discharges of
								Stormwater from Construction Activities (This will be administered by the
								department)
$15,000
$15,000
*If the project is completely administered by the
								department such as may be the case for a state or federal project or projects
								covered by individual permits, the entire applicant fee shall be paid to the
								department.
The following fees apply to coverage under the General
					 VPDES Permit for Discharges of Stormwater from Construction Activities issued
					 by the department for a state agency or federal entity that has standards and
					 specifications approved by the department.
General / Stormwater Management - Phase I Land
								Clearing (Large Construction Activity - Sites or common plans of development
								equal to or greater than five acres)
$750
General / Stormwater Management - Phase II Land
								Clearing (Small Construction Activity - Sites or common plans of development
								equal to or greater than one acre and less than five acres)
$450
Statutory Authority: §
												62.1-44.15:28 of the Code of
						Virginia; Chapters 68 and 758 of the 2016 Acts of
						Assembly.