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Air Pollution Control Bureau seeks 25% fee increase; council and staff ask questions
Summary
City Air Pollution Control Bureau asked council to adopt a roughly 25% increase to emission fees (raising a major-source tonnage fee from $30/ton to about $38.21/ton), add a presumptive minimum recommended by EPA, and permit future CPI-linked annual adjustments; staff presented data and answered council questions about how fees are used and comparisons with other Tennessee agencies.
Ron Drew Miller, executive director of the Air Pollution Control Bureau, asked the council to adopt fee changes the bureau approved internally, saying the last local fee increase occurred in 2017 and that the adjustment would bring major-source fees roughly to EPA's presumptive minimum.
"This is basically a 25% increase to what we charge now to all non part 70 sources as well as a presumptive minimum for the 9 part 70 major sources we recommended by the US…
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