Adoption of plan review and annual operating fees
Under the regulations drug producers participating in the standard stewardship plan or any independent stewardship plan are required to cover King County’s costs of administering and enforcing the adopted regulations (BOH 11.50.160). On May 15, 2014, the King County Board of Health adopted a fee schedule to implement this requirement (See BOH R&R 14-02).
Learn more about the process to adopt the rule and regulation
Fee Schedule Adopted by King County Board of Health
Plan review fees
A producer or group of producers participating in the standard stewardship plan or any independent stewardship plan shall pay to the director plan review fees for:
• Review of a proposed stewardship plan;
• Resubmittal of a proposed stewardship plan;
• Review of changes to an approved stewardship plan;
• Submittal of an updated stewardship plan at least every four years; or
• Review of any petition for approval to use alternative final disposal technologies.
Annual operating fees
In addition to plan review fees, a producer or group of producers participating in the standard stewardship plan or any independent stewardship plan shall pay to the director annual operating fees.
Fee costs shared by drug producers
It is anticipated that individual drug producers participating in the standard stewardship plan would share fee costs. To give a sense of economy of scale, if the total cost was divided evenly by 161 drug producers who have submitted their notice to participate in a stewardship plan to date, the shared cost to each individual drug producer would be $284.00. This cost would include the standard one-time plan review fee and annual operations fee for the first year. In the second year the cost would be $186.00 to each drug producer for annual operations fee.
Actual costs per participant will depend on how the participating producers agree within their stewardship plan to divide up the total costs. Most existing product stewardship programs that we are aware of divide up program costs among participating companies by market share.