facility

Noncontact cooling annual fee $90 $7,000

water

Industrial or annual fee $115 $2,100

commercial sources,

miscellaneous or

incidental non-

process wastewater

Municipal combined annual fee $115 $1,400

sewer overflow

Sanitary annual fee $60 $1,200

wastewater, commercial

sources excluding

overboard discharge

Sanitary annual fee $45 ---

wastewater, residential

sources 600 gallons per

day and less

Sanitary annual fee $60 $600

wastewater, residential

sources more than 600

gallons per day

Sanitary annual fee $60 $180

wastewater, public

sources less than

6,000 gallons

per day

Sanitary annual fee $85 $1,200

overboard discharge,

commercial sources

Sanitary annual fee $50 ---

overboard discharge,

residential sources

600 gallons per day

and less

Sanitary annual fee $60 $600

overboard discharge,

residential sources

more than 600 gallons

per day

Sanitary annual fee $75 $500

overboard discharge,

public sources

Aquatic pesticide annual fee* $200 ---

application

Snow dumps annual fee* $125 ---

Salt and sand annual fee* $150 ---

storage pile

Log storage permit annual fee* $200 ---

General permit annual fee* $100 ---

coverage for storm

water discharges

Experimental license fee* $500 ---

discharge license

Mixing zone, in flat fee* $4,000 ---

addition to other

applicable fees

Formation of flat fee* $300 ---

sanitary district

Transfer of license flat fee* $100 ---

for residential or

commercial sanitary

wastewater

*Discharge or license quantity fees do not apply to these categories.

When a license authorizes multiple discharge points in different categories in the same license, the total maximum fee for the license may not exceed the maximum fee for the most significant category plus 1/2 of the maximum fee for each of the other applicable categories.

B. The annual rate per unit for various pollutants and groups of discharges used in computing discharge and license quantity fees may not exceed the limits set out in this paragraph. When a license authorizes the discharge of

pollutants fitting more than one category, the appropriate fee is due for each group and type of pollutant.

License group or type of pollutant

Conventional pollutants, $1.25 per pound

license rate

Conventional pollutants, $2.40 per pound

discharge rate

Conventional pollutants, $0.55 per pound

primary treatment only

Conventional pollutants, $0.05 per pound

food handling or packing

facilities

Nonconventional or toxic Variable*

pollutants

Heat (as licensed flow x $0.045 per million BTU

temperature x 8.34)

Flow: fish rearing $45 per million gallons

facilities

Flow: combined sewer $55 per million gallons

overflows (based on

treatment facility design)

Flow: nonprocess from $175 per million gallons

industrial or commercial

sources

Flow: publicly owned $630 per million gallons

treatment facilities,

greater than 6,000

gallons per day

Flow: process from $630 per million gallons

industrial or

commercial sources

Flow: treated storm water $17.50 per million gallons

Flow: sanitary, from $0.02 per gallon

commercial sources

excluding overboard

discharge

Flow: sanitary from $0.02 per gallon

residential sources

Flow: sanitary from $0.02 per gallon

publicly owned facilities,

less than 6,000 gallons

per day or less

Flow: sanitary from $0.05 per gallon

overboard discharge

*The license rate per pound is $10.50 divided by the licensed effluent concentration in miligrams per liter. The discharge rate per pound is $21 divided by the licensed effluent concentration in miligrams per liter.

For the purposes of this section, the term "conventional pollutant" means oxygen-demanding compounds, suspended or dissolved solids, oil and grease. The term "nonconventional pollutants" means other chemical constituents subject to fees. Excluded from fees are the following: pH, residual chlorine, settleable solids, bacteria, whole effluent toxicity tests, color, any compound without numeric license limitations and effluent concentrations reported as being below acceptable detection limits.

Annual discharge or license quantity fees may be calculated using either pounds of pollutants or allowable flow, as is most appropriate for the circumstances of a particular discharge category, situation or location. License limits may be supplemented by applications and related supporting materials when necessary to calculate effluent quantities or concentrations.

SUMMARY

The bill increases the annual license fees for overboard discharges throughout the State. The base fee is increased for all overboard discharges, and the discharge fee per gallon of wastewater is raised from $0.02 per gallon to $0.05. A reference to storm water discharges is removed from the general permit fee coverage. A small number of nonsubstantive clarifications and corrections to inconsistent language are also made. Proposed language also clarifies that the units of measurement for nonconventional and toxic pollutants are to be in milligrams per liter.