Forsyth County
Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection
In short
Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection issues 2 permits we publish for Forsyth County, last verified 2026-09-30. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forsyth County Air Quality Permitonly if it applies to you | Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection | County-only, from Forsyth County Code Sec. 3Q-0203(a) and (d) with the Office's current permitting fees page printing identical amounts for these categories. Small facility and Exclusionary Small facility: application, new or modification, $50.00; ownership change $50.00; annual basic permit fee $250.00 per county fiscal year. Synthetic Minor: application $400.00; ownership change $50.00; annual basic permit fee $1,500.00. General facility: 50% of the otherwise applicable fee, with a $25.00 ownership change at Sec. 3Q-0203(d). Application fees must accompany the application, and all facilities holding a permit during the county fiscal year pay the applicable annual fee. | annual, on the Forsyth County fiscal year running July 1 to June 30; all facilities holding an air quality permit during that year owe the applicable annual fee, and fees are non-refundable | 2026-09-30 |
| Paint Stripping and Surface Coating Notifications to the County | Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection | No fee | Initial Notification within 180 days after operations begin, with the Notification of Compliance Status submitted alongside it for a new source; an Annual Notification of Changes Report before March 1 of each calendar year where information previously reported has changed or there have been deviations from management practices; records kept five years with the most recent two years on site | 2026-09-30 |
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
Forsyth County Air Quality Permit
Forsyth County runs its own air quality permitting programme rather than leaving it to the State, which makes this a genuinely county-level requirement: the Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection at 201 North Chestnut Street states that an air quality permit may be required if a business, facility or activity emits a regulated air pollutant into the outside air, and the rules are Chapter 3 of the Forsyth County Code. The dating is settled by the ordinance itself, which states that it contains the air quality rules and regulations that were modified and adopted on April 7, 2025 by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners. For every category a business in these ten industries could fall into, the fee table printed inside the code and the Office's current permitting fees page state identical amounts: $50.00 application and $250.00 annual basic permit fee for a Small or Exclusionary Small facility, $400.00 application and $1,500.00 annual for a Synthetic Minor, and 50% of the otherwise applicable fee for a General facility, whose $25.00 ownership change appears at Sec. 3Q-0203(d) in the code. Only the Title V figures differ between the two documents, which is consistent with the Sec. 3Q-0204 inflation mechanism that by its terms applies to Title V facilities, and Title V sits far above anything in these industries. The practical point for a small business is that scope is not automatic: an auto-repair shop is the most likely candidate, and a restaurant or coffee shop only where its fuel-burning equipment is large enough, and the Office will determine applicability for a given facility at no charge, so asking is cheaper than assuming. Application fees must accompany the application or it is not processed, the annual fee is owed by any facility holding a permit during the county fiscal year of July 1 to June 30, and payment is by cheque or money order to the Forsyth County General Fund. Contact: (336) 703-2440.
Paint Stripping and Surface Coating Notifications to the County
There is no fee for these notifications, and the Office's own page states none for them; any separate air quality permit fee is listed elsewhere on this page. What makes this a county obligation rather than a purely federal one is the ordinance: Forsyth County Code Sec. 3D-1111(e) provides that all requests, reports, applications, submittals and other communications to the administrator required under paragraph (a) of that Rule shall be submitted to the Director of the Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection rather than to the Environmental Protection Agency, so the paperwork goes to 201 North Chestnut Street in Winston-Salem. The scope is broader than many operators expect: the county's page states that the rule applies to all motor vehicle and mobile equipment surface coating operations including small auto body refinishing shops, so a two-bay shop that sprays is in scope. There are three submittals. A new source must notify EPA and the Office that it is subject to the rule by 180 days after operations begin, must submit the Notification of Compliance Status along with that Initial Notification, and must file an Annual Notification of Changes Report before March 1 of each calendar year where any information previously reported has changed or there have been deviations from its management practices. Records must be kept for five years with the most recent two years held on site, and painters must be trained no later than 180 days after hiring, with training valid five years and renewable. An exemption petition is available to a shop that spray applies only coatings which do not contain compounds of chromium, lead, manganese, nickel or cadmium above the thresholds the federal rule lists. Contact: (336) 703-2440.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Forsyth County
- Phone
- 336-703-2440
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.
- Forsyth County Air Quality Permitting Fees — the Office's current fee page: application fees must accompany all applications, all facilities holding a permit during the county fiscal year July 1 to June 30 pay the annual fee, fees are non-refundable and payable to the Forsyth County General FundForsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Forsyth County Code Chapter 3, Air Quality Control Ordinance and Technical Code — 'contains the air quality rules and regulations that were modified and adopted on April 7, 2025, by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners'; Sec. 3Q-0203(a) and (d) set the annual and application and ownership change fees, and Sec. 3D-1111(e) directs Subpart HHHHHH submittals to the Director of the Office rather than to EPAForsyth County, North Carolina · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Forsyth County Do I Need an Air Quality Permit — an air quality permit may be required if a business, facility or activity emits a regulated air pollutant into the outside air, and the Office will determine applicabilityForsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Forsyth County Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous Surface Coating — 40 CFR Part 63 Subpart HHHHHH as adopted by the Forsyth County Air Quality Technical Code Section 3D .1111, applying to all motor vehicle and mobile equipment surface coating operations including small auto body refinishing shops, with the Initial Notification, Notification of Compliance Status, annual report, five-year records and painter training requirementsForsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
Other offices serving Forsyth County
- Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Planning and Development Services, Inspections Division
- Forsyth County Department of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health
- Forsyth County Fire Department, Office of the Fire Marshal
- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health — Environmental Health Section
- Forsyth County Board of Commissioners
- Forsyth County Tax Collector (Tax Administration)
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