§2075.1. Permits and licenses; surcharge
A. The legislature finds and declares that discharges of substances into
the waters of the state have damaged and endangered the Louisiana molluscan
shellfish industry and have increased the costs of molluscan regulation and
sanitation in the state, and that it is in the best interests of the state to impose
a surcharge on discharges permitted or licensed pursuant to R.S. 30:2075.
B. A surcharge at a flat rate of twenty percent of the department
imposed permit fee, with a maximum of one hundred fifty dollars, shall be
added to the fee for each water discharge permit issued pursuant to R.S.
30:2075 for discharges in the Atchafalaya, Terrebonne, Barataria, Lake
Pontchartrain, and Mississippi River water quality management basins as
defined by the department Water Quality Management Basin Plans.
C. The proceeds of the surcharge authorized in Subsection B of this
Section shall be deposited into the Oyster Sanitation Dedicated Fund Account,
established in R.S. 40:5.10.
D. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to modify the rules
adopted pursuant to this Subtitle.
Acts 1993, No. 911, §1, eff. June 23, 1993; Acts 2021, No. 114, §18,
eff. July 1, 2022.