(1) The agency must collect, from the applicant, a fee to cover the costs incurred in providing advice and technical assistance under the program.
(2) The fee for providing advice and technical assistance under this program is:
(a) One thousand dollars if there is a release or suspected release of heating oil from an active, decommissioned, or abandoned heating oil tank system.
(b) Seven thousand five hundred dollars if there is a release or threatened release of petroleum from a qualified petroleum storage tank system.
(3) The applicant must pay the fee upon acceptance into the program. No advice or technical assistance will be provided until the fee has been paid.
(4) The fee is nonrefundable. However, if the agency determines that an applicant's petroleum storage tank system is ineligible after the applicant enters the program, the agency may refund the fee.
(5) Fees received by the agency under the program must be deposited in the heating oil pollution liability trust account.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
70.149.040. WSR 20-02-071, § 374-80-050, filed 12/26/19, effective 1/26/20. Statutory Authority: Chapter
70.148 RCW. WSR 03-06-015, § 374-80-050, filed 2/21/03, effective 3/24/03. Statutory Authority: Chapter
70.149 RCW. WSR 97-20-094, § 374-80-050, filed 9/29/97, effective 10/30/97.]