Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 500-599 - Environmental Protection - Solid Waste Management › Chapter NR 520 - Solid Waste Management Fees And Financial Responsibility Requirements › Section NR 520.04 - Licenses and fees

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) ISSUANCE OF AN OPERATING LICENSE. No
				person may operate or maintain a solid waste facility without an operating
				license from the department unless an exemption is granted under ss.
				NR
				500.08, 502.05, 502.06, 502.07, 502.08, 502.09, 502.12
				and 502.13. The license period shall be for one year.
(a) Application for an initial license for a
				new solid waste facility may be submitted at any time during the license
				period. Initial licenses issued during the license period shall expire at the
				end of that license period. The applicant for initial licensing of a facility
				shall submit the appropriate fees as shown in Table 2 or Table 3, whichever is
				applicable.
(b) Each year, the
				department will mail renewal application forms to existing license holders.
				Applicants failing to submit the relicensing application to the department
				within the specified time shall pay a late processing fee equal to 50% of the
				renewal fee or $150.00, whichever is less, in addition to the relicensing
				fee.
(c) Application for an
				operating license shall be submitted on forms supplied by the department and
				shall be accompanied by the appropriate fees as shown in Table 2 or Table 3,
				whichever is applicable.
(d)
1. In addition to the license fee specified
				in table 3, owners or operators of landfills shall pay a license fee surcharge
				to the department based upon the number of tons or equivalent volume of solid
				waste disposed of at each landfill during each quarterly reporting
				period.
2. The amount of the
				surcharge payable under subd. 1. shall be determined by multiplying the number
				of tons or equivalent volume of solid waste disposed of during each quarterly
				reporting period by a tonnage rate established in subd. 3.
3. The tonnage rate shall be 9.0 cents/ton
				through March 31, 2004, 12.0 cents/ton effective April 1, 2004, 14 cents/ton
				effective July 1, 2004, and 15.0 cents/ton effective July 1, 2005 and
				beyond.
4. Owners or operators of
				landfills shall submit quarterly reports on forms supplied by the department
				accompanied by the amount of the surcharge calculated under this section within
				30 days after the end of each successive reporting period.
Note:
The forms will be mailed to the landfill
				  owners or operators by the Department on a quarterly basis.
5. The department shall hold a public meeting
				annually in September to review the status of and projections for the waste
				management program revenue account. If, for 3 consecutive fiscal years, the end
				of year account balance is greater than 20% of the expenditure level of the
				program revenue account authorized in s.
				20.370(4)
				(dg), Stats., the department shall submit to
				the natural resources board proposed rule revisions with appropriate
				justification for the modification of the surcharge payable under this
				paragraph to more closely align revenues with expenditures in accordance with
				s.
				289.61(3),
				Stats. The proposed rule revisions shall be submitted within 180 days after the
				date of the public meeting.
(e) Except as provided in s.
				NR 500.065,
				license fees for solid waste facilities are not refundable.