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y Request For Fee Waiver of Underground Storage Tank Program October 12 , 1990 Page Three various chapters of the Chamber of Commerce . Extensive coverage was also provided in the major newspapers within San Joaquin County . In 1984 , Public Heal Ll, Services-f•.rnironmental Health Divi- sion was designated as Lhe local enforcement agency for implementing these State r•egulat.ions. Permit fees with a 100% penalty provision were adopted Lo support these State mandated program activities . On January 1 , 1986 , permit fee statements were mailed to all underground storage Lank owners that complied with the registration requirement . Due to the high penalties assess- ed by the State for individuals not registering their under- ground storage tanks ( $500 to $5 , 000 per day ) , a policy was adopted waiving for one year the local penalty fees on unregistered tanks . This policy has been extended to the present time , however, it does not include waiver of annual fees charged to all registered tank owners effective January 1 , 1986. A previous separate incident involving UST registration and regulation requirements was reviewed on 12-1-89 by San Joaquin County Counsel . At that time , Counsel ruled the public notification process for the UST registration and regulation requirements was adequate , and lack of knowledge of the regulations did not relieve an individual of respon- sibility for complying with said regulations. In 1990 , 52 San Joaquin County UST owners paid $31 , 084 in delinquent program fees to PHS-EHD for unregistered UST' s . To waive delinquent program fees now may expose the County to myriad of similar requests , including requests for refunds of delinquent fees already collected during the last five years since program implementation. Because I am leaving for a two ( 2 ) week vacation, I would ask that your Board receive this information at this time without any formal action. we do not believe a fee waiver should be consid- ered by your Board at this time without additional evaluation by our staff and County Counsel . In my absence , Mr. Charles Moody, Associate Director, will be available to respond to your Board ' s questions or direction . MNS:CMM: sc : cfp cc : Charles Moody, Associate Director William Mitchell , Deputy Director, PHS Aon Valinnoti , Director, Environmental Health Div.