EPA finalized the e-Manifest User Fee Final Rule on December 20, 2017 and it was published in the Federal Register (FR) on January 3, 2018.
The final rule establishes the methodology that EPA will use in setting and revising user fees in order to recover the full costs of the electronic manifest system. This includes costs incurred in developing, operating, maintaining, and upgrading a national e-Manifest system, as well as any costs incurred in collecting and processing data from any paper manifest submitted to the e-Manifest system after the date on which the system begins to operate on June 30, 2018. The per-manifest fees for each manifest submission type are:
YEAR 1 MARGINAL COST MANIFEST FEES BY MANIFEST TYPE [2017$]
Manifest submission type Year 1 fee
Mailed Paper …………………………………………………………………. $20.00
Image Uploads ………………………………………………………………… 13.00
Data File Uploads …………………………………………………………….. 7.00
Electronic ……………………………………………………………………. 4.00