Clark County
Clark County Department of Environment and Sustainability, Division of Air Quality
In short
Clark County Department of Environment and Sustainability, Division of Air Quality issues 2 permits we publish for Clark County, last verified 2026-09-25. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Quality Permit — Commercial Surface Coating Operation (auto body paint / spray booth)only if it applies to you | Clark County Department of Environment and Sustainability, Division of Air Quality | A new permit is several separate charges, not one: Operating Permit issuance fee $191.00, one-time (§18.1.1). NSR (New Source Review) application filing fee $484.00 (§18.4.1). NSR review fee $87.00 per ton of the source's annual potential to emit, plus $346.00 per emission unit (§18.4.3.1-.2). Annual emissions unit fee for each commercial surface coating operation, including spray booths — or, where a booth is not used, the coating process itself, such as a spray gun or dip tank — $537.00 per calendar year (§18.2.10). A separate baseline annual permit renewal fee of $95.00 per stationary source (§18.2.13.4), and a separate annual emissions fee of $55.00 per ton of regulated pollutant emitted, excluding carbon monoxide (§18.2). All Section 18 fees are adjusted each January 20 according to the CPI-U (§18.21). | the $537 emissions-unit fee and related renewal charges are assessed each calendar year | 2026-09-25 |
| Dust Control Permit (construction / ground disturbance)only if it applies to you | Clark County Department of Environment and Sustainability, Division of Air Quality | Dust Control Permit fee: $207.00 per acre or fraction of an acre disturbed, multiplied by the sum of the whole number of acres plus 1.0 acre for any fraction (§18.3.1). Permit modification $47.10 (§18.3.2). Dust Control Class Card, valid three years, $57.00 (§18.3.4) — a separate item from the Dust Control Monitor Class, a $500.00-per-person training course (§18.3.6). Late fee, 1.5 times the permit fee, $310.50 per acre (§18.3.5), charged for working without a permit, working with an expired permit, or working outside the acreage the permit actually covers. Blasting permit fee $191.00 (§18.3.7 area). | per permit as issued; the dust control class card is valid for three years | 2026-09-25 |
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
Air Quality Permit — Commercial Surface Coating Operation (auto body paint / spray booth)
An auto body or paint shop with a spray booth or other commercial surface-coating operation needs a Division of Air Quality stationary-source permit, and $537 is only one piece of what it costs, not the whole cost: that figure is the annual emissions unit fee under §18.2.10, charged per calendar year for each coating operation. A new permit separately requires a $191 Operating Permit issuance fee, a $484 New Source Review application fee, an NSR review charge of $87 per ton of the source's potential to emit plus $346 per emission unit, a $95 baseline annual renewal fee, and its own separate annual emissions fee of $55 per ton of regulated pollutant (excluding carbon monoxide) — six distinct charges under Section 18 of the Air Quality Regulations, revised February 12, 2026, all adjusted every January 20 by the CPI-U. Whether a given auto-body shop's paint operation actually crosses the threshold that requires a stationary-source permit at all is a question Section 12 of the Air Quality Regulations governs and was not part of this review; ask the Division of Air Quality, (702) 455-5942, 4701 W. Russell Road, Suite 200, Las Vegas, NV 89118, to determine whether a specific shop needs this permit before assuming it does. The Department of Business License collects Air Quality's approval before issuing the auto body license (Code §6.04.110(a)).
Dust Control Permit (construction / ground disturbance)
Site work in the unincorporated area — grading, trenching or other surface disturbance permitted under Section 94 of the Air Quality Regulations — needs a dust control permit at $207 per acre or fraction of an acre. Demolition of a structure 1,000 square feet or larger requires a Dust Control Operating Permit. The $310.50-per-acre late fee is broader than a missed filing deadline: it is assessed for working without a permit at all, for working under a permit that has expired, or for working outside the acreage a current permit actually covers. Two separate, non-interchangeable charges apply to the people who oversee dust control: a Dust Control Class Card, valid for three years, costs $57, while the Dust Control Monitor Class — the training course itself — costs $500 per person; the $57 card is not a training fee and does not substitute for the $500 class. Permit modifications cost $47.10 and blasting carries its own $191 permit fee. The specific acreage threshold at which Section 94 requires a permit for ordinary construction activity was not part of this review; ask the Division of Air Quality, (702) 455-5942, for the disturbance threshold that applies to a specific project.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Clark County
- Phone
- (702) 455-5942
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.
- Clark County Air Quality Regulations, Section 18, Fees (Revised 02-12-2026) — the current edition per the Division's own fees pageClark County Department of Environment and Sustainability, Division of Air Quality · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27
Other offices serving Clark County
- Clark County Department of Business License
- Clark County Department of Building & Fire Prevention, Building Division
- Clark County Department of Comprehensive Planning
- Southern Nevada Health District
- Clark County Fire Prevention (Department of Building & Fire Prevention)
- Clark County Water Reclamation District
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