Section 185.201  Amount of the Assessments

The Agency, with the concurrence of the Environmental Laboratory Certification Committee, has established the following administrative assessment and certification assessment schedules in accordance with the procedures of Section 17.8(c) and (d-5) of the Act.  This schedule shall remain in effect until an alternative schedule is established in accordance with those subsections.

a)         Administrative Assessment Schedule.  Each laboratory requesting any of the certifications in subsection (b) shall pay an annual administrative assessment of $2,400 per year, provided that the administrative assessment shall be $3,900 if the laboratory was not certified at any time during the six months immediately preceding its application for certification.

b)         Annual Certification Assessment.  In addition to the annual administrative assessment in subsection (a), each laboratory that requests certification shall pay the annual certification assessment for each certification requested based upon the following schedule:

1)         For certification to conduct public water supply analyses:

A)        $1,000 per year for inorganic parameters; and

B)        $1,000 per year for organic parameters.

2)         For certification to conduct water pollution analyses:

A)        $1,000 per year for inorganic parameters; and

B)        $1,000 per year for organic parameters.

3)         For certification to conduct analyses of solid or liquid samples for hazardous or other waste parameters:

A)        $1,000 per year for inorganic parameters; and

B)        $1,000 per year for organic parameters.

4)         For each laboratory request to change a Certificate of Accreditation outside the renewal period, $500. There shall be no limit to the number of changes that can be submitted per request.  Laboratories exempted from assessments by Section 185.102(b) do not need to pay a change request fee.

c)         The annual administrative assessment and the annual certification assessments shall be paid at the time the laboratory submits its application for certification or for renewal of certification.

(Source:  Amended at 48 Ill. Reg. 5264, effective March 19, 2024)