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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING
The Director of the Department of Public Works, pursuant to the authority set forth in section 2(c) of the District of Columbia Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1989, effective July 25, 1989 (D.C. Law 8-16; 36 DCR 4155 (June 19, 1989)), as amended by section 6012 of the Solid Waste Disposal Cost Recovery Act of 2007, effective September 18, 2007 (D.C. Law 17-20; 54 DCR 7052 (July 27, 2007)) and section 2 of the Solid Waste Disposal Fee Amendment Act of 2008, effective March 21, 2009 (D.C. Law 17-322; 56 DCR 224, and Mayor’s Order 2005-123, dated August 29, 2005, hereby gives notice of the adoption of a final rule amending the fees for the disposal of solid waste at the District’s waste-handling facilities included in chapter 7 (Solid Waste Control) of title 21 (Water and Sanitation) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).
This fee change reflects an increase in the cost that the District pays to haul solid waste delivered to its solid waste transfer facilities and is taken to ensure that the District fee recoups the actual cost of providing solid waste handling services.
The rules were adopted on an emergency basis on October 2, 2012, and became effective on October 7, 2012. A notice of proposed and emergency rulemaking was published in the D.C. Register on October 12, 2012, 59 DCR 11987. No comments were received from the public in connection with this notice during thirty (30) day comment period. No changes were requested and no changes have been made. The Director of the Department of Public Works took final rulemaking action on November 27, 2012. These final rules will be effective upon publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.
Chapter 7 (Solid Waste Control) of title 21 (Water and Sanitation) of the DCMR is amended as follows:
Subsection 720.5 is amended to read as follows:
720.5 Beginning on October7, 2012, the applicable fee for the disposal of construction and demolition debris at the waste-handling facilities shall be seventy-four dollars and four cents ($74.04) for each ton disposed; provided, that a minimum fee of thirty-seven dollars and two cents ($37.02) shall be imposed on each load weighing one thousand pounds (1,000 lb.) or less.
Subsection 720.8 is amended to read as follows:
720.8 Beginning on October 7, 2012, the applicable fee for the disposal of each ton of solid waste at the waste-handling facilities, excluding those wastes specified in § 720.5, 720.6, and 720.7, shall be fifty dollars and sixty-two cents ($50.62) for each ton disposed; provided, that a minimum fee of twenty-five dollars and thirty-one cents ($25.31) shall be imposed on each load weighing one thousand pounds (1,000 lb.) or less.
