Livestock industry operators will be required to pay water pollution control fees starting from 1 January 2017, and the EPA will begin collection of these fees on 1 July 2017. Entities subject to the livestock industry water pollution control fees are those that discharge wastewater into surface water bodies, further defined by criteria stated in the enterprise classification and definitions of the Water Pollution Control Act. To ease the impact on industry, the fees will be collected incrementally over years with discounts. The EPA is offering a 30 percent discount rate off the calculated sum for the first year, and the fees collected the following year will be 20 percent off, and so on. The EPA is planning to resume the original rate as of 2020.
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