§ 16-27. Allowable uses for emissions fee.

The department shall collect an annual emissions fee from those entities within the county which operate stationary air pollutant sources required to make application on or after July 1, 1992, to the Memphis and Shelby County Health Department for issuance, reissuance or modification of a permit in accordance with the county air code and this article, and shall be subject to the fee schedule referred to in section 16-37. This fee shall be used for:

(1)

Reviewing and acting upon any application for a permit or permit modification under the Memphis/Shelby County Air Code, as amended;

(2)

Implementing and enforcing the terms and conditions of any permit issued under the Memphis/Shelby County Air Code; provided, however, such cost shall not include any court cost or other costs associated with any judicial enforcement action;

(3)

Emissions and ambient monitoring and inspection of source operated monitoring programs;

(4)

Preparing generally applicable regulations or guidance;

(5)

Modeling, analyses and demonstrations;

(6)

Preparing inventories and tracking emissions;

(7)

Development of and support for the small business stationary source technical and environmental compliance assistance program as it applies to part 70 sources; and

(8)

Information management activities to support and track permit applications, compliance certifications and related data entry.

(Code 1992, § 14.5-27; Ord. No. 102, § 2, 3-30-1992; Ord. No. 265, § 10, 9-9-2002)