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F3 TCEQ REGULATORY GUIDANCE
' Financial Administration Division
RG-117
Revised September 2003
Beneficial Land Use and Surface Disposal FeesThis document is for guidance only; it does not take the
place of any laws or regulations.
What Are These Fees?
The Sludge Team of the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality assesses an annual fee based on
the amount of Class B sewage sludge, domestic septage,
and/or water treatment sludge that is applied to land for
beneficial use ("land-applied") or disposed of on the
surface ("surface-disposed").
Details about these fees can be found in Title 30 of the
Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Chapter 312. Authority
for the fees comes from Texas Health and Safety Code,
Section 361.013; Texas Water Code, Chapter 26; and from
Title 30 TAC, Section 312.9.
Facilities subject to these fees include the following:
* Beneficial Land Use (BLU) sites
authorized by the Sludge Team to land-
apply any combination of Class B
sewage sludge, domestic septage, and/or
water treatment plant sludge;
* surface disposal sites (landfills accepting
sludge only-"monofills") that are
permitted by the Sludge Team to accept
Class B sewage sludge, domestic septage,
and/or water treatment plant sludge; and
* wastewater treatment plants permitted to
land-apply Class B sewage sludge on the
same tract on which the plant is located,
through provisions found in the facility's
municipal wastewater permit.
All three of the above-mentioned types of facilities are
required to submit an annual report that includes the
information used to assess the annual fee. The reporting
year for all three types of facilities extends from August 1
through July 31. The permittee/registrant has one month to
compile and submit the annual report, due by September 1.
How Are the Fees Assessed?or inactive during any part of the reporting period from
August 1 through July 31. The fees are assessed as
described in the following list.
Beneficial Land Use
* When water treatment sludge is land-
applied by itself, the fee is $0.20 per dry
ton.
* When Class B sewage sludge, domestic
septage, or both are applied to the land
for beneficial reuse, the fee is $0.75 per
dry ton.
* When water treatment sludge is applied
to the land for beneficial reuse, in
combination with Class B sewage sludge
and/or domestic septage, the fee is $0.75
per dry ton.Disposal
0When water treatment sludge, and/or
Class B sewage sludge, and/or domestic
septage is surface-disposed in a monofill
permitted by the Sludge Team, the fee is
$1.25 per dry ton.
When sewage sludge is fired in a sewage
sludge incinerator, the fee is $1.25 per
dry ton.Using information from the annual report, the TCEQ
generates the billing invoice that goes to each registrant
or permittee.
The description column of the billing statement
contains the registered site number or permit number and
the fiscal year on the first line. The second line contains
the type of waste billed and amount reported as dry tons
(DRYTON) or gallons (for example, BENEF USE: Class
B DRYTON XXXX. XX).
When the volume(s) reported result in a fee of less than
$100.00, the term MINFEE indicates that the minimum
fee of $100.00 is being assessed.The minimum fee assessed to each registrant or
permittee is $100, regardless of whether the site is active
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - PO Box 13087 - Austin, Texas - 78711-3087
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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Financial Administration Division. Beneficial Land Use and Surface Disposal Fees, text, September 2003; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth624204/m1/1/?q=%22Government+and+Law+-+State+Agencies%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.