Section 289.62. Tonnage fees.

 

(1)   Imposition of tonnage fee on nonapproved facilities; exception; use.

(a) Imposition of tonnage fee. Except as provided under par. (b) , the owner or operator of a nonapproved facility shall pay periodically to the department a tonnage fee for each ton or equivalent volume of solid or hazardous waste received and disposed of at the facility during the preceding reporting period. The department may determine by rule the volume which is equivalent to a ton of waste.

(b) Exemption from tonnage fees; certain materials used in the operation of the facility. Solid waste materials approved by the department for lining, daily cover or capping or for constructing berms, dikes or roads within a solid waste disposal facility are not subject to the tonnage fee imposed under par. (a) .

(f) Reduction of or exemption from tonnage fees. The total annual tonnage fees for all solid waste received by a nonapproved facility shall be reduced by the amount of the base fee under s. 289.67 (3) for that facility. If the base fee for a nonapproved facility under s. 289.67 (3) is greater than the annual tonnage fee imposed under par. (a) for that facility, the solid or hazardous waste received by the facility is exempt from the tonnage fee for that year. The department shall establish methods by rule for estimating the total annual tonnages for all solid and hazardous wastes received by a nonapproved facility. If an estimate reveals that total annual tonnage fees for a nonapproved facility for a certain year are unlikely to exceed the base fee under s. 289.67 (3) for that year, the department shall grant an exemption under this paragraph without requiring the calculation of the actual total tonnage fees.

(g) Use of tonnage fees. Tonnage fees paid by a nonapproved facility shall be paid into the environmental fund for environmental management.

(2)   Amount of tonnage fee.

(a) Tonnage fee; solid waste. Except as provided under pars. (c) and (g) , the tonnage fee imposed by sub. (1) (a) is 1.5 cents per ton for solid waste.

(b) Tonnage fee; certain hazardous waste. The tonnage fee imposed by sub. (1) (a) is 15 cents per ton for hazardous wastes other than waste specified under par. (c) .

(c) Tonnage fee; other waste. Except as provided under par. (g) , the tonnage fee imposed by sub. (1) (a) is 1.5 cents per ton for waste consisting of ashes and sludges from electric and process steam generating facilities, sludges produced by waste treatment or manufacturing processes at pulp or paper mills, manufacturing process solid wastes from foundries and sludges produced by municipal wastewater treatment facilities.

(g) Tonnage fee; mining waste. Notwithstanding pars. (a) to (c) , with respect to prospecting or mining waste, the tonnage fee imposed under sub. (1) (a) is:

1. For hazardous tailing solids, 1.5 cent per ton.

2. For nonhazardous tailing solids, 0.2 cent per ton.

3. For hazardous sludge, one cent per ton.

4. For nonhazardous sludge, 0.5 cent per ton.

5. For hazardous waste rock, 0.3 cent per ton.

6. For nonhazardous waste rock, 0.1 cent per ton.

7. For any prospecting or mining waste not specified under subds. 1. to 6. , 0.5 cent per ton.

1995 a. 227 s. 589 , 991 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 1999 a. 32 ; 2013 a. 1 .