2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 56 - SOUTH CAROLINA HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT
SECTION 44-56-215. Assessment of fees against companies generating hazardous waste.
The department is authorized to assess each company generating hazardous waste a fee based on the amount of hazardous waste generated. A large quantity generator, as determined by Regulation 61-79.262, producing more than one hundred tons of hazardous waste per year shall be assessed an annual base fee of one thousand dollars per facility and a one dollar and fifty cents per ton fee for all hazardous waste the company generates. A large quantity generator producing one hundred tons or less of hazardous waste shall be assessed an annual fee of one thousand dollars. A small quantity generator shall be assessed an annual fee of five hundred dollars. Fees collected pursuant to this section shall not exceed an annual cost of fifteen thousand dollars per generator. Companies subject to fees required by Section 44-56-170(F)(1) are exempt from fees established by this section. The fees collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the Hazardous Waste Contingency Fund for response actions at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 5F.1, eff July 1, 2008.
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