Hillsborough County
Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) of Hillsborough County
In short
Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) of Hillsborough County issues 4 permits we publish for Hillsborough County, last verified 2026-09-28. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPC Green Star Program for Auto Shops (voluntary recognition, not a legal requirement)only if it applies to you | Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) of Hillsborough County | No fee | not applicable — a voluntary recognition program, not a license or permit with a term | 2026-09-28 |
| EPC Storage Tank Regulationonly if it applies to you | Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) of Hillsborough County | $170 one-time, storage tank installation/upgrade plan review | one-time, per installation, upgrade or closure project | 2026-09-28 |
| EPC Solid & Hazardous Waste / Small Quantity Generator (SQG) Programonly if it applies to you | Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) of Hillsborough County | No fee | ongoing; each identified business is subject to an unannounced on-site verification survey roughly once every 5 years | 2026-09-28 |
| EPC Air Permitting (construction/operation permits)only if it applies to you | Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) of Hillsborough County | An activity or operation that releases pollutants into the air may need a construction permit for a new or modified emission source, followed by a Minor or Title V operation permit set by emissions volume; paint-booth operations are explicitly identified as a hazardous-air-pollutant (HAP) source requiring this review. Hillsborough's available materials reference Fla. Admin. Code Rule 62-4.050 and EPC Rules Ch. 1-6 as the fee basis without printing the resulting dollar figures. | construction permit precedes an ongoing Minor or Title V operation permit; term not itemized in Hillsborough's available materials | 2026-09-28 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
EPC Green Star Program for Auto Shops (voluntary recognition, not a legal requirement)
No fee applies — Green Star is a voluntary environmental-recognition program for auto shops, housed within EPC's SQG program, and it is not a legal requirement — an auto-repair shop remains fully compliant with Hillsborough's mandatory environmental rules (the SQG program and the other EPC requirements) without ever applying to Green Star. Certification requires nine mandatory best practices — labeled oil containers, secondary containment, spill procedures, battery storage and storm-drain identification among them — plus five of seventeen additional optional practices, all layered on top of a shop's baseline regulatory compliance rather than substituting for it. This record is included for completeness and should not be read or presented as a compliance obligation.
EPC Storage Tank Regulation
An auto-repair shop's waste-oil or fuel storage tanks fall under this program: installing, upgrading or closing a regulated petroleum storage tank requires EPC plan review before the work proceeds. The installation/upgrade plan review fee is $170.00. No fee amount is published for a closure review specifically, alongside the confirmed $170.00 installation/upgrade figure, so none is asserted for closure here. This is a countywide EPC program, reaching a shop inside Tampa, Plant City or Temple Terrace the same as one in the unincorporated area.
EPC Solid & Hazardous Waste / Small Quantity Generator (SQG) Program
The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County is a special district whose jurisdiction is countywide, reaching businesses inside Tampa, Plant City and Temple Terrace as well as the unincorporated area — a broader reach than a typical single-department Florida county environmental office. EPC identifies and notifies businesses with the potential to generate hazardous waste of their RCRA compliance responsibilities and conducts unannounced on-site verification surveys of at least 20% of identified businesses each year, so that each is checked roughly every five years; a recent public count put the number of identified potential generators in Hillsborough County at approximately 15,242. There is no separate registration fee for SQG identification itself; a related, separately billed County Hazardous Waste Fee applies to businesses EPC identifies as qualifying (see the next record). Auto-repair shops (waste oil, solvents, antifreeze), veterinary and salon businesses (chemical waste) and retail stores handling regulated materials are the industries most likely to be identified.
EPC Air Permitting (construction/operation permits)
An auto-repair shop's paint booth is the clearest trigger among the ten target industries, since EPC's own materials specifically identify painting operations as a HAP source requiring air permitting review. Ordinary retail and restaurant operations are typically exempt from this program under the general applicability thresholds in Fla. Admin. Code Rule 62-210, a statewide exemption pattern rather than a Hillsborough-specific carve-out. Contact EPC for the specific dollar fee for a construction or operation permit; the fee basis itself (Rule 62-4.050 and EPC's own internal rules) is cited above as the confirmed mechanism. Confirm the current fee directly with EPC's Air Division before beginning any permitted activity.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Hillsborough County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
- Website
- www.epchc.org/
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- EPC Permitting Guide — air permitting, storage tank plan review ($170.00 installation/upgrade review) and related program summariesEnvironmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Small Quantity Generator (SQG) Program — identification, notification and unannounced on-site verification of businesses with potential to generate hazardous waste; also houses the voluntary Green Star recognition program for auto shopsEnvironmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
Other offices serving Hillsborough County
- Hillsborough County Development Services (Zoning, Building, Land Use Hearing Officer)
- Hillsborough County Tax Collector, Business Tax Services
- Hillsborough County Business Licensing & Regulation (Regulatory Compliance)
- Hillsborough County Department of Childcare Licensing
- Hillsborough County Contractor Licensing Board
- Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, Fire Marshal's Office
- Hillsborough County Public Utilities, Industrial Pretreatment, Dental Amalgam and Grease Management Program
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