The proposed increase in fees is astronimical. Currently the fee works out to around $100 a year. If this passes it could go to over a $1000 to $2000 a year. It also adds a new fee for "maintenance". We already have to pay fees for everything else, this just makes it even more costly to try and undertake a project. I suggest keeping the existing fee structure, but making them annual instead of for the life of the permit.

I also would like to know the procedure for notifying the permit holder that their annual fee is due. Will it be letter, email, both? One time notice?

Who makes the determination that a project is complete? Most projects reach 95% stabilization at occupancy , but that last 5% can be problematic. Getting grass to grow everywhere is difficult for almost everyone. I'd hate to see DCR or a local authority applying strict criteria on a permit holder just to make them have to pay another annual fee for something very minor in nature.

I also do not like the annual increase on the fee that is linked to the cost index. Once again that adds a burden on permit holder's to figure out what they have to pay. The fees are way to high as proposed and adding that increase just adds insult to injury.

In conclusion, it's too much fee for too little benefit to the environment. It's a tax in sheeps clothing on the backs of new development when the chief cause of pollution in the state is from existing development which gets off scott free.