Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 252 - Department of Environmental Quality
Chapter 305 - Laboratory Services
Section 252:305-1-11 - Required fees and other pricing
Current through Vol. 41, No. 13, March 15, 2024
(a) Fees. Fees established for samples submitted by governmental entities are listed in Appendix A. Fees established for samples submitted by private citizens are listed in Appendix B.
(b) Discount. The State Environmental Lab may discount certain analytical work for customers who provide a large volume of prescheduled samples. Discounts will be determined by the Director of Customer Services taking into account cost savings to the agency.
(c) Other analysis. The State Environmental lab will consider performing other types of analyses upon special request. The fees for these tests will be based upon method development costs, actual analytical costs and a $2.00 per sample charge for processing of invoices and payments.
(d) Supply and consumables charges. Unless otherwise specified by the Director of Customer Services, the analytical fees reflected in these rules include sample containers, sample digestion/extraction and any other consumables necessary to perform the requested analytical work.
(e) Other charges. The State Environmental Lab will consider accommodating extraordinary requests with respect to data handling, quality assurance, sample handling or reporting. The fees for these extraordinary requests will be based upon administrative costs, actual personnel costs and any associated development costs.
(f) Annual Fee Adjustment. To assist in meeting rising costs to the DEQ of the environmental services associated with the laboratory services program, the fees set out in this Section and Appendices A and B shall be automatically adjusted on July 1st every year to correspond to the percentage, if any, by which the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the most recent calendar year exceeds the CPI for the previous calendar year. The DEQ may round the adjusted fees up to the nearest dollar. The DEQ may waive collection of an automatic increase in a given year if it determines other revenues, including appropriated state general revenue funds, have increased sufficiently to make the funds generated by the automatic adjustment unnecessary in that year. A waiver does not affect future automatic adjustments.
Added at 18 Ok Reg 1946, eff 6-11-01; Amended at 25 Ok Reg 2258, eff 7-11-08