Hazardous Waste Generator Environmental Repair Fee

The Fee Worksheet (FW) Form calculates the annual fee according to the statutory language that requires the fee (s. 289.67(2), Wis. Stats.). A hazardous waste generator that is required to submit an annual hazardous waste report is also required to pay the annual fee. The base fee is $210 for a generator that generated any hazardous waste during the reporting year, plus $20 per ton of hazardous waste generated. The maximum fee that can be assessed is $17,000 per year, regardless of the amount of hazardous waste generated.

The FW Form calculates a hazardous waste environmental fee. However, do not send an environmental fee payment to DNR until after you receive a cumulative environmental fee statement in June.

By statute, no fees may be assessed for the following:

• hazardous wastes recovered for recycling or reuse;
• hazardous waste-contaminated leachate transported to a wastewater treatment plant or discharged directly to a sewer pipe;
• hazardous wastes removed from a site or facility to repair environmental pollution;
• household hazardous wastes collected by a municipality under its household hazardous waste collection program; and
• hazardous wastes collected by a county under its agricultural chemical waste collection program.

The FW Form requests the amounts of any of these fee-exempted wastes so that fees are not assessed for them. For more information, see ss. 289.67(2)(a) through (e), Wis. Stats [PDF 282KB, exit DNR].

Contact Information

For questions and comments about the hazardous waste generator environmental repair fee, please contact:

DNR Waste Materials@Wisconsin.gov