Introduced
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To increase or impose surcharges on a wide variety of environmental permit fees, landfill permit fees, floodplain construction permit fees, industrial facility air or water discharge permit fees, and many more. The Department of Environmental Quality is seeking $13 million in increased fees on businesses and individuals to avoid spending cuts in its 2008 budget, or allowing some programs to revert to the federal government.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.