OAR 340-097-0120: Permit/Registration Categories and Fee Schedule

(1) For purposes of OAR chapter 340, division 97: (a) A "new facility" means a facility at a location not previously used or permitted, and does not include an expansion to an existing permitted site; (b) An "off-site industrial facility" means all industrial solid waste disposal sites other than a "captive industrial facility;" (c) A "captive industrial facility" means an industrial solid waste disposal site where the permittee is the owner and operator of the site and is the generator of all the solid waste received at the site. (d) As used in this rule, the term "mixed solid waste" means solid wastes that include paper, plastic, and other materials at least partly made up of domestic waste, where the materials have not been separated from each other. (2) Application Processing Fee. Except as provided in sections (3), (4), and (5) with respect to composting facilities, an application processing fee must be submitted with each application for a new facility, or waste tire carrier permit, including application for preliminary approval pursuant to OAR 340-093-0090. The amount of the fee depends on the type of facility and the required action as follows: (a) A new municipal solid waste landfill facility, construction and demolition landfill, incinerator, energy recovery facility, solid waste treatment facility, off-site industrial facility or sludge disposal facility: (A) Designed to receive over 7,500 tons of solid waste per year: $10,000; (B) Designed to receive 7,500 tons and less of solid waste per year: $5,000. (b) A new captive industrial facility, other than a transfer station or material recovery facility: $1,000; (c) A new transfer station or material recovery facility: (A) Receiving over 50,000 tons of solid waste per year: $500; (B) Receiving over 10,000 and less than or equal to 50,000 tons of solid waste per year: $200; (C) Receiving 10,000 tons and less of solid waste per year: $100. (d) Letter Authorization under OAR 340-093-0060: (A) New site: $500; (B) Renewal: $500. (e) Permit Exemption Determination under OAR 340-093-0080(2): $500. (f) Beneficial use of solid waste application and reporting fees under OAR 340-093-0260 through 340-093-0290: (A) The review of an annual or other report required under a beneficial use determination: $250; (B) A Tier One beneficial use determination: $1,000; (C) A Tier Two beneficial use determination: $2,000; (D) A Tier Three beneficial use determination: $5,000; (E) Annual extension to a demonstration project authorization: $1,000. (g) A new conversion technology facility: (A) Designed to receive over 7,500 tons of feedstocks per year: $2,000; (B) Designed to receive 7,500 tons or less of feedstocks per year: $1,500. (h) A new waste tire storage permit: $250. (i) A new waste tire carrier permit: $25 (3) Composting Facility Screening Fee. Every composting facility that is required to comply with OAR 340-096-0080 must pay a screening fee of $150. The fee must be submitted with the application for screening, as provided in OAR 340-096-0080(1). (4) Facility Plan Review and Approval Fee. (a) Every composting facility that is required to comply with OAR 340-096-0090 must pay an Operations Plan Approval fee as provided below. The fee must be submitted with the proposed Operations Plan, as provided in OAR 340-096-0090(1). Agricultural composting facilities for which the Oregon Department of Agriculture is providing facility plan review and approval are not required to pay this fee. (A) For facilities composting over 100 tons and less than or equal to 3,500 tons of feedstocks per year: $500; (B) For facilities composting over 3,500 tons and less than or equal to 7,500 tons of feedstocks per year: $750; (C) For facilities composting over 7,500 tons and less than or equal to 10,000 tons of feedstocks per year: $1000; (D) For facilities composting over 10,000 tons and less than or equal to 50,000 tons of feedstocks per year: $2,000; (E) For facilities composting over 50,000 tons of feedstocks per year: $5,000. (b) Every conversion technology facility that is required to comply with OAR 340-096-0180 must pay a fee as provided below. The fee must be submitted with the proposed Operations Plan, as provided in OAR 340-096-0180. (A) For facilities designed to receive 3,500 tons of feedstocks or less per year: $1,000; (B) For facilities designed to receive over 3,500 tons but no more than 7,500 tons of feedstocks per year: $1,500; (C) For facilities designed to receive over 7,500 tons but no more than 20,000 tons of feedstocks per year: $2,200; (D) For facilities designed to receive over 20,000 tons but no more than 50,000 tons of feedstocks per year: $3,000; (E) For facilities designed to receive over 50,000 tons of feedstocks per year: $5,000. (5) Composting Facility Engineering Review Fee. Every composting facility that requires DEQ review of engineering plans and specifications under OAR 340-096-0130 must pay a fee of $500. This fee is in addition to the fee required by section (4). Agricultural composting facilities for which the Oregon Department of Agriculture provides review of engineering plans and specifications are not required to pay this fee. (6) Solid Waste Permit Compliance Fee. The following is the fee schedule including base per-ton rates to be used to determine the solid waste permit compliance fee. The per-ton rates are based on the estimated solid waste to be received at all permitted solid waste disposal sites and on DEQ's Legislatively Approved Budget. DEQ reviews annually the amount of revenue generated by this fee schedule. To determine the solid waste permit compliance fee, DEQ may use the base per-ton rates or any lower rates if the rates generate more revenue than provided in DEQ's Legislatively Approved Budget. Any increase in the base rates must be established by rule. In any case where a facility fits into more than one category, the permittee must pay only the highest fee: (a) All facilities accepting or permitted to accept solid waste for final disposal or destruction, excluding transfer stations, material recovery facilities, commingled recycling processing facilities, limited sort facilities and composting facilities: (A) The greater of $200; or (B) A solid waste permit compliance fee based on the total amount of solid waste received at the facility in the previous calendar quarter or year, as applicable, at the following rate: (i) All municipal landfills, construction and demolition landfills, industrial landfills, sludge disposal facilities, incinerators and solid waste treatment facilities: $.21 per ton through June 30, 2016, and $.58 per ton beginning July 1, 2016; (ii) Energy recovery facilities. $.13 per ton through June 30, 2016, and $.58 per ton beginning July 1, 2016; and (iii) Conversion technology facilities: $.10 per ton through June 30, 2016, and $.58 per ton beginning July 1, 2016. (C) If DEQ does not require a disposal site, other than a municipal solid waste facility, to monitor and report volumes of solid waste collected, the solid waste permit compliance fee may be based on the estimated tonnage received in the previous quarter or year. (D) Ash or residue received by a landfill from an energy recovery facility, incinerator, or conversion technology facility is not subject to the solid waste permit compliance fee paid on a per-ton basis under paragraph (B) if the energy recovery facility, incinerator, or conversion technology facility has paid this fee on all incoming waste. Alternatively, DEQ can make arrangements to split this fee between a landfill and an energy recovery facility, incinerator, or conversion technology facility, based on the proportion by weight of the ash and residue received by the landfill and the total weight of incoming waste received by the energy recovery facility, incinerator, or conversion technology facility. (b) Transfer stations, material recovery facilities, commingled recycling processing facilities and limited sort facilities: (A) Facilities accepting over 50,000 tons of solid waste per year: $1,000; (B) Facilities accepting over 10,000 and less than or equal to 50,000 tons of solid waste per year: $500; (C) Facilities accepting 10,000 tons or less of solid waste per year: $50. (c) Composting facilities with a composting permit, except agricultural composting facilities for which the Oregon Department of Agriculture is providing facility oversight: (A) Utilizing over 50,000 tons of feedstocks for composting per year: $5,000; (B) Utilizing over 7,500 and less than or equal to 50,000 tons of feedstocks for composting per year: $1,000; (C) Utilizing over 3,500 and less than or equal to 7,500 tons of feedstocks for composting per year: $500; (D) Utilizing over 100 tons and less than or equal to 3,500 tons of feedstocks for composting per year: $100. (d) Closed Disposal Sites: (A) Year of closure. If a land disposal site stops receiving waste before April 1 of the fiscal year in which the site permanently ceases active operations, DEQ will determine a pro-rated permit compliance fee for those quarters of the fiscal year not covered by the permit compliance fee paid on solid waste received at the site. The pro-rated fee for the quarters the site was closed is based on the calculation in paragraph (B); (B) Each land disposal site that closes after July 1, 1984: $150 or the average tonnage of solid waste received in the three most active years of site operation multiplied by $.025 per ton, whichever is greater; but the maximum permit compliance fee is $2,500. (e) Waste tire storage sites: $250. (f) Waste tire carrier: $200. (7) Per-ton solid waste disposal fees on solid waste. Each solid waste disposal site that receives domestic solid waste for final disposal or destruction, and each person transporting solid waste out of Oregon for disposal at a disposal site that receives domestic solid waste, except as excluded under OAR 340-097-0110(3)(c), must submit fees to DEQ for solid waste received at the disposal site or transported out of Oregon. Beginning April 1, 2019, each solid waste land disposal site that receives construction or demolition waste, land clearing debris, or tires for final disposal or destruction, and each person transporting solid waste out of Oregon for disposal at a land disposal site that receives construction or demolition waste, land clearing debris, or tires for final disposal or destruction, except as excluded under OAR 340-097-0110(3)(c), must also submit fees to DEQ for solid waste received at the disposal site or transported out of Oregon. (a) These fees include: (A) A fee of $.81 per ton through March 31, 2016, raised to $1.11 per ton beginning April 1, 2016, through March 31, 2019, and raised to $1.18 per ton beginning April 1, 2019; (B) An additional per-ton fee of $.13 for the Orphan Site Account. (b) Tons subject to these fees include: (A) All solid wastes landfilled, incinerated without energy recovery or treated for disposal by an Oregon disposal site that receives domestic solid waste, except as excluded in subsections (c) and (f); (B) All Oregon solid wastes that are transported out-of-state for disposal or destruction at a disposal site that receives domestic solid waste, except as excluded under OAR 340-097-0110(3)(c) and subsections (c) and (f); (C) Mixed solid wastes that are processed by a conversion technology facility, burned for energy recovery, or composted by an Oregon disposal site that receives domestic waste; (D) Mixed solid waste that includes at least some domestic solid waste, that has been processed into refuse-derived fuel to be burned for energy recovery by a facility that does not have a solid waste permit, or that does not pay per-ton fees as specified in this section; (E) Beginning April 1, 2019, all solid wastes landfilled at an Oregon land disposal site that receives construction or demolition waste, land clearing debris, or tires for final disposal or destruction, except as excluded in subsections (c) and (f); and (F) Beginning April 1, 2019, all Oregon solid wastes that are transported out-of-state for disposal at a land disposal site that receives construction or demolition waste, land clearing debris, or tires for final disposal or destruction, except as excluded in subsections (c) and (f). (c) Tons not subject to these fees include: (A) Through March 31, 2019, all solid wastes received at a facility that does not receive domestic solid waste; (B) Beginning April 1, 2019, all solid wastes received at a facility that does not receive domestic solid waste or construction or demolition waste, land clearing debris, or tires; (C) Source-separated recyclables or other materials separated and recycled from mixed solid waste, including separated organics that are composted; (D) Construction and demolition wastes and industrial wastes that are processed by a material recovery facility or a conversion technology facility to make a fuel to be burned off-site for energy recovery (e.g., in a wood fuel boiler); (E) All solid wastes sent by a disposal site to another disposal site, where the per-ton fees are paid by a disposal site that subsequently receives that waste; (F) Solid waste used as daily cover at a landfill as described in subsection (f); (G) Ash from an energy recovery facility or incinerator that has paid these fees; and (H) Sewage sludge or septic tank and cesspool pumpings. (d) Submittal schedule: (A) These per-ton fees must be submitted to DEQ quarterly. Quarterly remittals are due on the 30th day of the month following the end of the calendar quarter; (B) Disposal sites receiving less than 1,000 tons of solid waste per year must submit the fees annually on January 31. If DEQ does not require the disposal site to monitor and report volumes of solid waste collected, the disposal site must submit with the fees an estimate of the population the disposal site serves; (C) For solid waste transported out-of-state for disposal, the per-ton fees must be paid to DEQ quarterly. Quarterly remittals are due on the 30th day of the month following the end of the calendar quarter in which the disposal occurred. If the transportation is not on-going, the fee must be paid to DEQ within 60 days after the disposal occurs. (e) Solid waste that is used as daily cover at a landfill in place of virgin soil is not subject to the per-ton solid waste fees in this section, provided that: (A) The amount of solid waste used as daily cover does not exceed the amount needed to provide the equivalent of six inches of soil used as daily cover; (B) If disposed of in Oregon, the solid waste is not being used on a trial basis, but instead has received necessary approvals from DEQ for use as daily cover; and (C) If disposed of in a landfill outside of Oregon, the solid waste has received final approval from the appropriate state or local regulatory agency that regulates the landfill. (f) For solid waste delivered to disposal facilities owned or operated by a Metropolitan Service District, the fees established in this section are levied on the district, not on the disposal site.