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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".21" citation="COMAR 26.13.07.21" title_num="26" subtitle_num="13" chapter_num="07" heading="Permit Fees.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Application Fee.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A person applying for a facility permit, a facility permit renewal, or a major modification of a facility permit shall pay a nonrefundable application fee according to the fee schedule in §A(2) of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Application Fee Schedule. The application fee is:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>$2,000 for an application for a new or previously unpermitted storage facility;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>$3,000 for an application for a new or previously unpermitted treatment facility other than an incinerator;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>$5,000 for an application for a new or previously unpermitted incinerator;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>$10,000 for an application for a new or previously unpermitted land disposal unit;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>$2,000 for an application for renewal of a storage facility permit;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>$3,000 for an application for renewal of a permit for a treatment facility;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>$5,000 for an application for renewal of a land disposal unit;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>$2,000 for an application for a major modification of a facility permit which involves the addition of a new storage unit;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>$3,000 for an application for a major modification of a facility permit which involves the addition of a new treatment unit other than an incinerator;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(j)">
        <text>$5,000 for an application for a major modification of a facility permit which involves the addition of a new incinerator;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(k)">
        <text>$10,000 for an application for a major modification of a facility permit which involves the addition of a new land disposal unit; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(l)">
        <text>For new applications, renewal applications, or applications for permit modification which involve more than one type of unit, the sum of the application fees for the corresponding units specified in §A(2)(a)—(k) of this regulation.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The Secretary shall apply the application fee towards the permit fee required by §B of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Permit Fee.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Permit fees shall be established based upon the following considerations:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Acreage involved in the facility;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Nature and quantity of the CHS handled at the facility;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The threat that the CHS may present to human health or the environment;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>The anticipated costs of monitoring and regulating the facility;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>The anticipated costs attributable to the removing and properly disposing of all CHS that may escape from a facility; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Anticipated needs for program development activities relating to CHS.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The Secretary shall calculate the permit fee for a facility as 1.1 times the sum of a service fee and an environmental fee. The service fee is comprised of the costs borne by the Department in monitoring and regulating the facility, and is calculated as described in §B(3) of this regulation. The environmental fee is calculated as described in §B(6) of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Service Fee. The service fee is calculated using the formulae in the following work sheet, and the values for salary, benefits, overhead, and work years specified in §B(4) of this regulation:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Monitoring—Analyses to be Performed by the Department. (Cost per analysis x number of analyses) = $___;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Yearly Costs of Regulating the Facility for the Permit Duration.</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Cost of project manager = (permit writer work years) x (permit writer's annual salary + annual benefits) x (overhead factor) = $___,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Cost of supervision of project manager = 0.25 x (permit writer work years) x (permit writer's annual salary + annual benefits) x (overhead factor)            = $___,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>(Compliance and enforcement work years) x (enforcement personnel annual salary + annual benefits) x (overhead factor) = $___,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Subtotal, costs of regulating = $___;</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Service fee = costs of regulating + costs of monitoring = $___.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Except as specified in §B(5) of this regulation, the Secretary shall use the following values in performing the calculations outlined in §B(3):</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>For the sum of the permit writer's annual salary and benefits, $49,000;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>For the sum of enforcement personnel annual salary and benefits, $51,000;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>For the overhead factor, 1.25;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>For permit writer work years:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>0.1 for storage facilities,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>0.1 for treatment facilities,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>0.12 for incineration facilities,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>0.18 for disposal facilities, and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>For facilities that have a combination of the types of waste management units listed in §B(4)(d)(i)—(iv) of this regulation, the sum of the corresponding factors listed in §B(4)(d)(i)—(iv) of this regulation; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>For compliance and enforcement work years:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>0.2 for operating disposal facilities, and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>0.05 for facilities other than operating disposal facilities.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>The Secretary may modify the factors specified in §B(4) of this regulation as necessary to reflect increased personnel and overhead costs, and additional expenditures of staff time based on the complexity of the facility.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Environmental Fee.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The environmental fee component of the permit fee is calculated as the product of a size factor, location factor, and a waste management factor.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The size factor is equal to one plus (0.1 times the number of acres used for hazardous waste management units at the facility).</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The location factor is obtained by determining the land uses adjacent to the facility as shown on zoning maps, and choosing the maximum of the following numbers associated with the corresponding land uses that are adjacent to the facility:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Industrial—1.0;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Agricultural—1.2;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Residential—1.5;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Institutional—1.5;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>Recreational—1.7.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>The waste management factor is equal to the sum of the products of a hazard factor and a quantity factor assigned to permitted storage, treatment, active disposal, and inactive disposal activities at a facility.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Hazard Factor.</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>For disposal facilities, the hazard factor is equal to 10 times the fraction of acute hazardous waste that the facility is permitted to handle plus 3.0 times the fraction of nonacute hazardous waste that the facility is permitted to handle.</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>For all other facilities, the hazard factor is equal to 10 times the fraction of acute hazardous waste that the facility is permitted to handle plus 2.0 times the fraction of nonacute hazardous waste that the facility is permitted to handle.</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>If a facility is permitted to manage acute hazardous wastes, but the facility's permit does not specify the fraction of waste that may be acute, the fraction is assumed to be 0.1 for the purpose of the calculations described in §B(6)(e)(i) and (ii) of this regulation.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Quantity Factor. The quantity factor is set according to the type of facility, as described in §B(6)(g)—(l) of this regulation.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>For storage facilities, the quantity factor is equal to the hazardous waste storage capacity, in tons.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>For treatment facilities permitted to treat up to 1,000 tons of hazardous waste per year, the quantity factor is equal to the maximum amount of  hazardous waste authorized to be treated per year, in tons.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>For treatment facilities permitted to treat more than 1,000 tons of hazardous waste per year, the quantity factor is equal to 1,000 plus (0.001 times the number of tons in excess of 1,000 authorized to be treated per year).</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(j)">
        <text>For active disposal facilities permitted to dispose of up to 20,000 tons per year of hazardous waste, the quantity factor is equal to the amount of waste authorized to be disposed of per year, in tons.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(k)">
        <text>For active disposal facilities permitted to dispose of more than 20,000 tons per year of hazardous waste, the quantity factor is equal to 20,000 plus (0.001 times the amount of hazardous waste, in tons, in excess of 20,000 tons authorized to be disposed of per year).</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(l)">
        <text>For inactive disposal facilities, the quantity factor is equal to 0.001 times the total amount of hazardous waste in tons disposed of at the facility.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Failure to pay the permit fee in a timely manner constitutes grounds for permit termination under Regulation .12.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>