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Section 1. The following fees are hereby established as the fees to be paid, on or before May 1, 1999, by hazardous substance users within the City of Eugene, as defined by Amendment IV to the Eugene Charter of 1976: $500 per hazardous substance user; plus an amount per employee of each hazardous substance user, as necessary to generate the program's Fiscal Year 2000 operating requirements. The amount per employee will be determined based on the following: a. Fiscal Year 2000 program requirement. This is the Fiscal Year 2000 program budget less any surplus Fiscal Year 1999 program funds carried forward as an offset to 1999 fees. b. Number of reporting companies, multiplied by $500, with that product then subtracted from the Fiscal Year 2000 program requirement. c. The total number of employees of hazardous substance users. The net program requirement calculated in paragraph (b) above will be divided by the total number of employees. For each hazardous substance user, number of employees will be determined by dividing the total number of hours worked by regular employees in calendar year 1998 by 2,080. Actual fee amounts will be calculated using the most current information available as of April 2, 1999, this being the first date upon which the City will be in receipt of all timely reports from hazardous substance users. Based on the above, and on employee information generated in 1998, the per- employee amount to be assessed pursuant to this Resolution is estimated to be $13.50. Section 2. The fees collected pursuant to this Resolution shall be used solely for the purpose of operating the Toxics Right-to-Know Program created by Amendment IV to the Eugene Charter of 1976 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000. Section 3. The Council finds that ORS 453.402(6) may prevent the City of Eugene from employing a toxics reporting fee structure that may be preferable to the structure provided in this Resolution, and the Council hereby refers this matter to the Intergovernmental Relations Committee with the recommendation that measures be taken as soon as is reasonably practicable to seek to free the City of Eugene from such restrictions. The foregoing Resolution adopted the 15th day of March, 1999. ~LI,VJ .tJ17 City Recorder Resolution - 2