NAC459.96986. Fees for certification.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a laboratory must submit an annual fee of $500 with each application for certification.  

     2. A laboratory which only performs analysis for microbiology is not required to pay the fee provided pursuant to subsection 1.

     3. In addition to the fee required pursuant to the provisions of subsections 1 and 4, a laboratory must submit an annual certification fee for each category of contaminant for which certification is requested. The categories of contaminants and annual fees are:

CATEGORY OF CONTAMINANT	ANNUAL FEE
Bulk asbestos analysis of hazardous waste............................................................	$400
Characteristics of hazardous waste........................................................................	350
Dioxin in hazardous waste.....................................................................................	400
Herbicides..............................................................................................................	545
Immunoassay methods for hazardous waste..........................................................	545
Infrared analysis of hazardous waste.....................................................................	545
Inorganic chemistry of hazardous waste................................................................	545
Liquid chromatography for hazardous waste.........................................................	545
Microbiology..........................................................................................................	400
Miscellaneous screening methods for hazardous waste.........................................	400 per method
Pesticides................................................................................................................	545
Physical properties of hazardous waste..................................................................	350
Polyaromatic hydrocarbons in hazardous waste....................................................	545
Polychlorinated biphenyls in hazardous waste.......................................................	545
Radiochemistry of hazardous waste......................................................................	545
Semivolatile organic chemistry of hazardous waste...............................................	545
Toxicity bioassay of hazardous waste....................................................................	400
Trace metals in hazardous waste............................................................................	545
Volatile organic chemistry of hazardous waste......................................................	545
Any other individual contaminant.........................................................................	200
Any other individual multicontaminant method....................................................	400

     4. In addition to the fees required pursuant to the provisions of subsections 1 and 3, if a laboratory applies for certification for a contaminant in more than two of the approved methods of testing for that contaminant, the laboratory must submit a fee of $200 for each additional approved method of testing.

     5. If a laboratory applies for certification for additional contaminants after the laboratory has been issued a certification for an annual period of certification, the fee for certification for each additional contaminant is the fee provided for that contaminant pursuant to the provisions of subsection 3. The fee must be prorated pursuant to subsection 6 if the provisions of that subsection otherwise apply. If the Division conducts an evaluation for certification at the laboratory, the laboratory must pay, at the rate provided for state officers and employees generally, the actual travel and per diem expenses of the Division. If the laboratory is located outside of this State, the expenses must be paid pursuant to the provisions of subsection 7.

     6. The fees are effective for 12 months beginning on August 1 of each year. If an application for certification to test for an analyte is submitted during that period, the fees for that certification must be prorated using the following formula:

Fee X .083 X the number of months remaining in the period of certification.

For the purpose of prorating fees, an application for certification to test for an analyte shall be deemed to have been submitted at the beginning of a month regardless of the date of the application. The prorated fee must be rounded to the next highest dollar. The fee provided pursuant to the provisions of subsection 1 must not be prorated.

     7. If an evaluation for certification of a laboratory that is located outside of this State is conducted, the laboratory must pay the actual travel and per diem expenses of the employee of the Division who conducts the evaluation.

     8. The fee for certification to test for a specific analyte must be paid before a certificate for that analyte may be issued.

     9. Any fee paid pursuant to the provisions of this section is nonrefundable.

     (Added to NAC by Environmental Comm’n by R061-04, eff. 10-7-2004)