The owner or operator shall, by certified check made payable to the county’s Fiscal Court, submit fees in accordance with the following schedule.
(A) At the time of submission of the application for site approval, the owner or operator shall pay the Fiscal Court an application fee of $25,000, which is to be held in escrow for payment of the reasonable expense of reviewing and evaluating the application. Fees are required for new facilities and also for any modified or expanded existing facilities.
(B) At the conclusion of the review process, the county’s Judge Executive shall tender to the owner or operator a statement setting out the actual cost incurred by the county’s Fiscal Court for the use of qualified consultants for technical, accounting or legal assistance and any other expenses incurred in the evaluation of the application and the facility impact report, which shall be payable upon receipt.
(C) The county’s Fiscal Court may not recover costs in excess of the actual cost of consultants and any other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the county’s Fiscal Court.
(D) An additional fee of $5,000 per year is due and payable each year on the anniversary of the issuance of the permit. Such fee shall be used to defray the costs of enforcement of this chapter.
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