Hazardous Waste Fee Worksheet (FW) Form

The Fee Worksheet (FW) Form of the Hazardous Waste Annual Report is required for sites that were in any of these activity categories during the report year:

• Large Quantity Generator (LQG)
• Small Quantity Generator (SQG)
• Treatment, Storage or Disposal (TSD) Facility
• Permanent Household and Very Small Quantity Generator Hazardous Waste Collection Facility that ships hazardous waste off-site to a licensed or permitted hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility.

The Hazardous Waste Annual Report system determines if your site needs to complete the FW Form, based on the activities you indicated on the reporting requirements screen. Non-generators and very small quantity hazardous waste generators are only required to complete the FW Form if they engaged in other activities for which the FW Form is required. The FW Form is no longer required for sites that, during the report year, were a publicly owned (wastewater) treatment works (POTW) that accepted hazardous waste (via truck, rail or dedicated pipe) for treatment.

Purpose

The main purpose of the FW Form is to estimate the annual hazardous waste generator fee. It is also used by a Permanent Household and Very Small Quantity Generator Hazardous Waste Collection Facility to report the amount of waste collected during the report year. The FW Form is no longer used to collect waste minimization activity information from large quantity generators.

Fees

The hazardous waste generator fee is estimated by adding a site's base fee and their tonnage fees. The base fee is determined by the site's hazardous waste generator status during the report year. Tonnage fees are based on the amount of hazardous waste generated minus the amounts of tonnage fee-exempted wastes. More detailed information about recent changes in the hazardous waste generator fees is available.

Do not pay the fee until after you receive an environmental fee statement in June. That statement will include the hazardous waste generator fee and other DNR environmental fees you may owe.

Note: Even though certain hazardous wastes are exempt from the tonnage fee, they must still be reported on the FW Form as hazardous waste generated and tonnage fee-exempted. An example of a tonnage fee-exempted waste is hazardous waste that was recovered for recycling or reuse at your site or at another site.

FW Form Instructions

Section A: Generator Status and Base Fee

Section A displays the hazardous waste generator status that was entered for your site on the reporting requirements screen in the column for the report year. The corresponding base fee for the generator status reported will be displayed below the status. You can read details about the hazardous waste generator base fees in effect for this report year.

Section B: Amounts of Hazardous Waste Generated and Tonnage Fee Exempted

Section B requests information about the quantities of hazardous waste generated and managed by specific methods during the report year.

• Question 1: Total amount of hazardous waste generated at your site during the reporting year.

  Enter the total amount in pounds.

• Question 2a: Was any of the generated hazardous waste recovered for recycling or reuse (including hazardous wastes burned for the purpose of energy recovery)? Check Yes or No.

  If yes, enter the total amount in pounds.

  Note: Recovered for recycling or reuse includes beneficially using or reusing hazardous waste, processing hazardous waste to recover a usable product and burning hazardous waste for energy recovery. The recovery for recycling or reuse may be done at your site or at another site. Hazardous waste recycling facilities are regulated under s. NR 661.06(3), Wis. Adm. Code. A hazardous waste recycling facility, which stores hazardous waste received from off-site for more than 24 hours (or stores hazardous waste generated on-site for more than the allowed generator accumulation period) before it enters the recycling process, must have a hazardous waste facility license.

• Question 2b: Was any of the generated hazardous waste a leachate that was transported to a wastewater treatment plant or discharged directly to a sewer pipe? Check Yes or No.

  If yes, enter the total amount in pounds.

  Note: Leachate is liquid, including any dissolved or suspended material in the liquid, that has percolated through, contacted or drained from hazardous waste or gases generated by hazardous waste. Leachate is commonly generated at landfills with leachate collection systems.

• Question 2c: Was any of the generated hazardous waste removed from the site to repair environmental pollution? Check Yes or No.

  If yes, enter the total amount in pounds.

  Note: Hazardous waste removed from a site to repair environmental pollution typically involves the removal of contaminated soil or groundwater that is regulated as hazardous waste.

• Question 2d: Was any of the generated hazardous waste collected by a municipality under its household hazardous waste collection program or by a county under its agricultural chemical waste collection program? Check Yes or No.

  If yes, enter the total amount in pounds.

  Note: DO NOT report the same waste under multiple exemptions in questions 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d. Net Waste should not be a negative number.

• The following hazardous wastes should not be reported on the FW Form:
• wastes that were not generated at your site (i.e., wastes that your site as a licensed treatment, storage or disposal facility received from another site); and
• wastes that you managed at your site in only elementary neutralization units, totally enclosed treatment facilities or wastewater treatment units, as defined in s. NR 660.10, Wis. Adm. Code.

Section C: Permanent Household and Very Small Quantity Generator Collection Facility Waste Collected

Section C will be displayed on the FW Form if you indicated that during the report year your site was a permanent household and very small quantity generator hazardous waste collection facility that ships waste off-site to a licensed or permitted hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility. Enter the total amount of waste (in pounds) that your site (as this type of facility) collected during the report year.

Comment Section on Forms

Use the Comment section at the bottom of the forms to clarify or continue any entry.

Contact Information

For questions and assistance in completing the hazardous waste annual report FW Form, contact your local Environmental Program Associate.

For general questions and comments about the hazardous waste annual reports, please contact:

DNR Waste Materials@Wisconsin.gov