NJPDES Permit Fees The fee schedule is assessed in accordance with the current fee regulations found at N.J.A.C. 7:14A-3.1 (pdf) in order to cover the Department's costs to issue and manage the NJPDES program. The Department first established a fee assessment program in 1981. Individual permit fees are based on the facility's potential environmental impact, the billing rate for the category of discharge, and the minimum fee for the category of discharge. The billing rate for each category of discharge is determined annually by subtracting the total minimum fees paid by the permittees in the category of discharge from the total budget for the category of discharge, and then dividing that value by the sum of the calculated environmental impact for all of the dischargers within the category.

The NJPDES program rules are set forth at N.J.A.C. 7:14A. All persons who wish to discharge wastewater in the state are required to obtain a NJPDES discharge permit from the Department. Pursuant to Section 9 of the State Act, the Department is authorized to "establish and charge reasonable annual administrative fees, which fees shall be based upon, and shall not exceed, the estimated cost of processing, monitoring and administering the NJPDES permits." Fees are assessed to cover the Department's costs to issue and manage NJPDES permits.

N.J.S.A. 58:10A-10 provides the Department with the authority to seek civil administrative penalties for failure to pay assessed NJPDES permit fees.

The NJPDES budget and fee schedule covers activities including:

• the review of NJPDES permit applications;
• the development of specific permit terms and conditions including wasteload allocations and water quality based effluent limitations;
• stream monitoring and modeling;
• conducting compliance and 24-hour sampling inspections;
• ground water compliance sampling;
• supervising the installation of ground water monitoring wells;
• evaluating and approving ground water remediation alternatives;
• evaluating compliance with the terms and conditions of each NJPDES permit; and
• providing for the general administrative costs of the NJPDES program including regulatory support, data processing, and budgeting.

Fee Related Downloads

Year	Document Title	File Type	File Size
FY 2013	NJPDES FY2013 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		1.33 mb
	2013 Notice of Annual Fee Report		71 kb
FY 2012	NJPDES FY2012 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		1.69 mb
	2012 Notice of Annual Fee Report		24 kb
FY 2011	NJPDES FY2011 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		550 kb
	2011 Notice of Annual Fee Report		23kb
FY 2010	NJPDES FY2010 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		742 kb
	2010 Notice of Annual Fee Report		152 kb
FY 2009	NJPDES FY2009 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		6705 kb
	NJPDES FY2009 Annual Fee Report Cover Letter		218 kb
	NJPDES FY2009 Notice of Adoption/Response to Comments published at 41N.J.R.680(a)		42 kb
FY 2008	NJPDES FY2008 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		607 kb
	NJPDES FY2008 Annual Fee Report Cover Letter		34 kb
	NJPDES FY2008 Notice of Adoption/Response to Comments published at 40 N.J.R. 813		46 kb
FY 2007	NJPDES FY2007 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		683 kb
	NJPDES FY2007 Annual Fee Report Cover Letter		24 kb
	NJPDES FY2007 Notice of Adoption/Response to Comments published at 39 N.J.R. 381(b)		80 kb
FY 2006	NJPDES FY2006 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		625 kb
	NJPDES FY2006 Annual Fee Report Cover Letter		21 kb
	NJPDES FY2006 Notice of Adoption/Response to Comments published at 38 N.J.R. 1087(a)		33 kb
FY 2005	NJPDES FY2005 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		683 kb
	NJPDES FY2005 Annual Fee Report Cover Letter		21 kb
	NJPDES FY2005 Notice of Adoption/Response to Comments published at 37 N.J.R. 534(a)		54 kb
FY 2004	NJPDES FY2004 Annual Fee Report (Proposal Document)		697 kb
	NJPDES FY2004 Annual Fee Report Cover Letter		23 kb
	NJPDES FY2004 Notice of Adoption/Response to Comments published at 36 N.J.R. 2947(c)		48 kb

Other Related Forms

NJPDES Change of Billing Address form (pdf). Submit to have NJPDES fee related information and invoices sent to an address other than the "Permittee Address" listed on the permit.

Program Contacts: Terry Beym or Mike Dillon, Permit Administration Section at 609-984-4428

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Last Updated: March 18, 2013