{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-10-201","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-10-201","heading":"Rules – Fees","body":"A. The Board of Environmental Quality is directed and empowered\n\nto promulgate rules for solid waste management including but not\n\nlimited to:\n\n1. The permitting, posting of security, construction,\n\noperation, closure, maintenance and remediation of solid waste\n\ndisposal sites;\n\n2. Disposal of solid waste in ways that are environmentally\n\nsafe and sanitary, as well as economically feasible;\n\n3. Authorizing variances from the specific requirements of a\n\nparticular rule provided that the applicant for a variance has\n\ndemonstrated that compliance with the rule will be met by\n\nsubstituted technology which equals or exceeds the protection\n\naccorded by the particular rule and that the variance will not\n\nresult in a hazard to the health, environment and safety of the\n\npeople of this state or their property. The grant of any variance\n\nshall be upon express condition that, in the event of the failure of\n\nthe substituted technology to conform to the requirements of law and\n\nrules, the applicant shall be required to incorporate the\n\ntechnology, process or procedure established under the rules;\n\n4. Requiring the submission of laboratory reports or analyses\n\nperformed by certified laboratories for the purposes of compliance\n\nmonitoring and testing and for other purposes required for the\n\nregulation of sludge pursuant to Part 4 of this Article;\n\n5. The transportation of solid waste. Such rules shall not be\n\nmore stringent than those of the United States Department of\n\nTransportation or the United States Interstate Commerce Commission;\n\n6. Applicant disclosure; and\n\n7. The regulation of borrow areas for soils to be used in solid\n\nwaste disposal sites. Regulatory authority over such borrow areas\n\nshall be exclusive to the Board and the Department of Environmental\n\nQuality.\n\nB. Rules shall be promulgated in compliance with the\n\nAdministrative Procedures Act. Notice of any proposed changes to\n\nsuch rules shall be given to the Oklahoma Municipal League, the\n\nCounty Commissioners Association, and such citizens as have\n\nrequested to be notified and shall advise them of an opportunity to\n\ncomment thereon before the adoption of such rules.\n\nC. Absent specific legislative authority, the Board shall not\n\namend any existing rule in such a manner as to encourage importation\n\nof biomedical waste generated outside the territorial limits of this\n\nstate.\n\nD. The Board, pursuant to Section 2-3-402 of this title and the\n\nAdministrative Procedures Act, shall establish a schedule of fees to\n\nbe charged for applications to issue and renew permits, licenses and\n\nother authorizations required by the provisions of this article and\n\nfor such environmental services as are involved in the regulation of\n\nsolid waste. Fees charged pursuant to this section shall be paid\n\ninto the Department of Environmental Quality Revolving Fund and\n\nshall be used by the Department in administering the Solid Waste\n\nManagement Act. The Board, in setting fees, shall consider factors\n\nwhich include but are not limited to:\n\n1. Facility size and capability;\n\n2. Size of population served by such facility;\n\n3. Type or class of facility; and\n\n4. Type and amount of waste accepted, stored, treated,\n\ntransferred or disposed.","path":["OK Code","Title 27A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os27A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"273a9e1c80aad4a499e01a9a96eafc3bd011263f1ef4d3cc8f29e1368825b1ca","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-10-103","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-10-202"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}