Orange County Environmental Protection Division

Hazardous Waste Generator Surcharge

A business generating hazardous waste in Orange County pays a $50.00 hazardous waste surcharge to the county's Environmental Protection Division, confirmed against the county's own Fee Directory — this is explicitly an administrative and inspection-cost surcharge, not a waste-disposal fee. The Environmental Protection Division names auto repair shops explicitly among the regulated categories, alongside dry cleaners, dentists and chiropractors, large retailers, manufacturers, print shops and salvage yards; veterinary clinics are a plausible generator of hazardous waste through sharps and pharmaceutical waste, though EPD's own materials do not name veterinary clinics by name the way they name auto repair shops, so a veterinary practice should confirm its own classification directly with EPD (407-836-1400) rather than assume either way. Generators are classified by monthly generation volume as a Very Small Quantity Generator (under 220 lbs/month), Small Quantity Generator (220-2,200 lbs/month) or Large Quantity Generator (2,200 lbs/month or more), and compliance is checked through unannounced inspections. The county's own program page does not state whether this surcharge reaches businesses inside incorporated cities or only the unincorporated area; this record treats it as countywide, consistent with Orange County's other Environmental Protection Division programs, but a business should confirm its own status with EPD directly. This is Orange County's narrower equivalent of a full unified hazardous-materials or CUPA program — limited to generator inspection and surcharge rather than a broader unified permitting scheme.