An official website of the United States government.

This is not the current EPA website. To navigate to the current EPA website, please go to www.epa.gov. This website is historical material reflecting the EPA website as it existed on January 19, 2021. This website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work. More information »

Fee Waivers and Exemptions

There are three categories of fee waivers and exemptions:

Specific requirements apply to each of these categories, such as number of employees and revenues for the small business waiver. Read the guidance for the category that you believe you may qualify for.

In addition, there are circumstances where part of the fee may be refunded. Generally, such refunds are related to withdrawal of the application or situations where EPA completed some of the work associated with the application as part of another application.

Read more about fee refunds.