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11-4-1527  Permit fees.
   (a)   The permit fees to operate a sanitary landfill, resource recovery facility, solid waste incinerator, liquid waste handling facility, transfer station or waste handling facility shall be as follows:
 
Annual sanitary landfill fees:
25-acre tract or less
$10,000.00
More than 25 acres but less than 50 acres
$20,000.00
50 acres or more but less than 75 acres
$30,000.00
75 acres or over
$40,000.00
 
 
Annual resource recovery facility or solid waste incinerator fees:
Design capacity of 250 tons per day or less
$5,000.00
Design capacity of more than 250 tons per day but less than 750 tons per day
$10,000.00
Design capacity of more than 750 tons per day but less than 1,250 tons per day
$20,000.00
Design capacity of more than 1,250 tons per day
$25,000.00
 
 
Annual liquid waste handling facility fees:
New or existing facility
$15,000.00
 
 
Quarterly transfer station or waste handling facility fees:
New or existing facility
$0.22 per ton of waste receive
 
   (b)   The City of Chicago shall be exempt from the payment of any fee required under this section.
   (c)   Every operator of a transfer station or waste handling facility shall remit the required permit fees to the department with the remittance return form prescribed by the commissioner. On or before the last day of each quarterly period, the operator must file the remittance return form and remit the fee attributable to the amount of waste received less any waste removed from the waste stream and properly recycled.
   (d)   The commissioner shall have the authority to promulgate rules for the collection of the fees required to be paid by this section.
(Added Coun. J. 10-7-09, p. 73413, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 2-9-11, p. 112149, § 6; Amend Coun. J. 11-21-17, p. 61858, Art. VII, § 1)