Washington Administrative Code
Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508)
Chapter 173-441 - Reporting of emissions of greenhouse gases
Section 173-441-110 - Fees
Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Fee determination. All persons required to report or voluntarily reporting under WAC 173-441-030 must pay a reporting fee for each year they submit a report to ecology. Ecology must establish reporting fees based on workload using the process outlined below. The fees must be sufficient to cover ecology's costs to administer the GHG emissions reporting program.
(2) Fee eligible activities. All costs of activities associated with administering this reporting program, as described in RCW 70A.15.2200(2), are fee eligible.
(3) Workload analysis and budget development. Each biennium, ecology must conduct a workload analysis and develop a budget based on the process outlined below:
(4) Allocation methodology. Ecology must allocate the reporting program budget among the persons required to report or voluntarily reporting under WAC 173-441-030 according to the following:
(5) Fee schedule. Ecology must issue annually a fee schedule reflecting the reporting fee to be paid per reporter. Ecology must base the fee schedule on the budget and workload analysis described above and conducted each biennium. Ecology must publish the fee schedule for the following year on or before October 31st of each year.
(6) Fee payments. Fees specified in this section must be paid within 60 calendar days of receipt of ecology's billing statement. All fees collected under this chapter must be made payable to the Washington department of ecology. A late fee surcharge of $50 or 10 percent of the fee, whichever is more, may be assessed for any fee received after 90 calendar days past the due date for fee payment.
(7) Dedicated account. Ecology must deposit all reporting fees they collect in the air pollution control account.
Statutory Authority: 2010 c 146, and chapters 70.235 and 70.94 RCW. 10-24-108 (Order 10-08), § 173-441-110, filed 12/1/10, effective 1/1/11.