Appendix 4532. Fees for spill prevention control and countermeasure plan.

The CUPA shall charge and shall be paid a fee to defray the costs to the County to implement the unified program related to Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan on behalf of the CUPA. Such fee shall be due and payable once each year for each unified program facility where such a plan is required. The person or persons who are the owners and operators of such facility where such a plan is required shall be jointly and severally liable to pay such fee. The fee provided by this Section shall be due and payable upon demand by the CUPA.

The fee for aboveground petroleum storage facilities with a storage capacity of one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) gallons to nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine (9,999) gallons shall be:

Fee = 1A

where:

A = The EHS III contract hourly rate in effect at the time the CUPA demands payment.

The fee for aboveground petroleum storage facilities with a storage capacity greater than nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine (9,999) gallons shall be:

Fee =  (2A) + (8B)
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where:

A = The EHS III contract hourly rate in effect at the time the CUPA demands payment; and,

B = The EHS IV contract hourly rate in effect at the time the CUPA demands payment.

(Ord. No. 4430, 5-24-2011)