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A. The city shall establish fees by city council resolution for its activities in accordance with the provisions of this chapter:

1. Threshold Determination. For every environmental checklist the city will review when it is lead agency, the city shall collect a fee from the proponent of the proposal prior to undertaking the threshold determination. The time periods provided by this chapter for making a threshold determination shall not begin to run until payment of fees.

2. Environmental Impact Statement.

a. When the city is the lead agency for a proposal requiring an EIS and the responsible official determines that the EIS shall be prepared by employees of the city, the city may charge and collect a reasonable fee from any applicant to cover costs incurred by the city in preparing the EIS, including overhead. The responsible official shall advise the applicant of the projected costs for the EIS prior to actual preparation.

b. The responsible official may determine that the city will contract directly with a consultant for preparation of an EIS, or a portion of the EIS, for activities initiated by some persons or entity other than the city and may bill such costs incurred including overhead directly to the applicant. Such consultants shall be selected by the city.

c. The applicant shall pay the projected amount to the city prior to commencing work. The city will refund the excess, if any, at the completion of the EIS. If the city’s costs exceed the projected costs, the applicant shall immediately pay the excess, and the city is not obligated to proceed until the moneys have been received. If a proposal is modified so that an EIS is no longer required, the responsible official shall refund any fees collected under subsection (A)(2)(a) or (A)(2)(b) of this section which remain after incurred costs, including overhead, are paid.

3. Appeals. All appeals shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable appeal fee.

B. The city may collect a reasonable fee from an applicant to cover the cost of meeting the public notice requirements of this chapter relating to the applicant’s proposal. The city may charge any person for copies of any document prepared under this chapter, and for mailing the document, in a manner provided by state law.

C. The responsible official will adopt a fee schedule for purpose of this section to cover costs incurred including overhead until city council adopts a fee schedule by resolution. (Ord. 1631 § 1, 1996; Ord. 1445 § 1, 1991; Ord. 1149, 1984).