15-214-2 Me. Code R. § 1
The Director of MEMA establishes by rule the following reporting fee guidelines for hazardous materials reported to the SERC under SARA and Title 37-B.
All facility owners and operators who must comply with Sections 311, 312, and/or 313 of SARA, and Section 796, 797, and/or 799 of Title 37-B shall annually, on or before March 1, pay a registration fee of $50, for the previous calendar year.
All facility owners and operators who maintain inventories of extremely hazardous substances and must report those inventories pursuant to SARA §312 and Title 37-B, §797 shall pay a fee for each extremely hazardous substance based upon the weight of the total average daily amounts present at their facility during the previous calendar year. The following scale shall be used for assessing those fees:
| < 99 lbs. | $30 |
| 100-999 lbs. | $75 |
| 1,000-9,999 lbs. | $100 |
| 10,000-99,999 lbs. | $150 |
| 100,000-999,999 lbs. | $225 |
| > 1,000,000 lbs. | $300 |
Fees will be paid at the time of reporting, on or before March 1 annually, for the previous calendar year.
All facility owners and operators who maintain inventories of hazardous chemicals and must report those inventories pursuant to SARA §312 and Title 37-B, §797 shall pay a fee for each hazardous chemical based upon the weight of the total average daily amounts present at their facility during the previous calendar year. The following scale shall be used for assessing those fees:
| 0-9,999 lbs | $0 |
| 10,000-99,999 lbs. | $75 |
| 100,000-999,999 lbs. | $100 |
| > 1,000,000 lbs. | $200 |
Fees will be paid at the time of reporting, on or before March 1 annually, for the previous calendar year.
Retail marketers of petroleum products reporting inventories of petroleum products shall enjoy a fee exemption for all products with average daily amounts which total 75,000 pounds or less present at their facility during the previous calendar year. For retail petroleum marketers, the following scale shall be used for assessing hazardous-chemical fees:
| 0-75,000 lbs. | $0 |
| 75,001-99,999 lbs. | $75 |
| 100,000-999,999 lbs. | $100 |
| > 1,000,000 lbs. | $200 |
Fees will be paid at the time of reporting, on or before March 1 annually, for the previous calendar year.
For the purposes of this rule, "retail marketer of petroleum products" shall mean facility owner and operators who sell petroleum products at retail for consumer use.
All facility owners and operators who manufacture, process, or otherwise use toxic chemicals above established threshold planning quantities and must annually report their routine and accidental releases and amount transferred off-site on the Toxic Release Inventory Reporting Form R shall pay a fee for each toxic chemical based upon total amount released to the environment, released to the publicly-owned treatment works, and transferred off-site as a waste during the previous calendar year. The following scale shall be used for assessing those fees:
| 0 lbs. | $ 0 |
| 1-499 lbs. | $30 |
| 500-999 lbs. | $75 |
| 1,000-9,999 lbs. | $100 |
| 10,000-99,999 lbs. | $150 |
| 100,000-999,999 lbs. | $225 |
| > 1,000,000 lbs. | $300 |
Fees will be paid at the time of reporting, on or before July 1 annually, for the previous calendar year.
Farm product processing facilities are not exempt from the fee requirements. For the purposes of this rule, "processing" shall not include the packaging of raw commodities or farm products for resale.
15-214 C.M.R. ch. 2, § 1