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Board approves multi-year increase to permit fees; staff says most facilities will see small increases
Summary
The board unanimously approved amendments to Rule 42 to raise permit processing fees, deposits and emission-rate fees over a multi-year schedule to cover program costs; staff said most permitted facilities would see modest increases and the change is expected to raise about $150,000 annually for the district.
The Ventura County Air Pollution Control Board voted unanimously to adopt proposed revisions to Rule 42 (permit fees), including phased increases to emission-rate fees and a higher minimum processing fee and deposit to recover district program costs.
District staff presented the rationale: program revenues have not kept pace with costs, federal PM2.5 standards tighten obligations and staff identified an outdated per-unit rate that had not been raised since 2011. "We decided to increase the fee rate for all of the pollutant by 5%, except for CO and PM," the presenter said, explaining a…
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