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Waste regulations - Chapter 90

In its 2004 session, the General Assembly authorized the collection of annual fees from solid waste management facilities (SWMFs). 2004 Acts cc 249, 324. The Virginia Waste Management Board approved final regulations assessing annual fees, 9 VAC 20-90, which became effective July 1, 2004. The regulations call for the payment of solid waste annual fees no later than October 1st of each year for activities in the preceding calendar year (CY), with certain exceptions.

Changes to Annual Fee Regulations in 2010

At the June 14, 2010 meeting, the Virginia Waste Management Board adopted amendments to the Annual Fee Regulations in 9VAC20-90 to implement provisions of budget item 354 of House Bill 30 (HB 30), as enacted by 2010 General Assembly. The revised annual fee schedule became effective on August 18, 2010 and affected annual fees required to be submitted by October 1, 2010.

Revised Annual Fees for 2011

The 2011 General Assembly passed SB1007 which revised the annual fees solid waste management facilities are required to pay. This will affect annual fees to be submitted by October 1, 2011 for activities conducted during calendar year 2010. No changes were made to permit action fees. The revised Solid Waste Management Permit Action Fees and Annual Fees Regulation 9VAC20-90 became effective on August 3, 2011.

Chapter 90 - Solid Waste Management  Facility Permit Action Fees and Annual Fees

Form PF001 - Quarter payment Form

The Legislative Information Database contains the text of regulations currently in effect. Links to individual sections of the regulations are listed below. The entire text of a regulation can be obtained by using the Legislative Information Databasehttp://leg1.state.va.us/000/reg/TOC09020.HTM . Once in the database, first select the chapter of interest and then choose the "create report" option beside the name of the chapter. To obtain the entire text of a regulation, including forms and documents incorporated by reference, leave the section numbers blank on the report screen. Additional information concerning creating reports from the Legislative Information Database is available at http://leg1.state.va.us/h009.htm

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Section 10 - Definitions

Section 20 - Authority for regulation

Section 30 - Purpose of regulation

Section 40 - Administration of regulation

Section 50 - Applicability of regulations

Section 60 - Payment of permit action fees

Section 65 - Payment of annual fees

Section 70 - General

Section 80 - New facility permits

Section 90 - Applications for permit actions, amendment or modification

Section 100 - Minor amendments or modifications

Section 110 - Review of variance requests.

Section 113 - Annual Fee Calculation for incinerators and energy recovery facilities

Section 114 - Annual Fee Calculation for sanitary landfills, noncaptive industrial landfills, and construction and demolition debris landfills

Section 115 - Annual Fee Calculation

Section 117 - Discounted annual fees for Environmental Excellence Program participants

Section 120 - Permit application fee schedules.

Section 130 - Base fee rate schedules

FORMS         FORMS (9VAC20-90)