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Court Approves Size‐based Fee Schedule
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1997.tb08283.x
Subject(s) - schedule , legislature , agency (philosophy) , south carolina , business , state (computer science) , control (management) , federal court , state law , service (business) , law , public administration , political science , computer science , economics , supreme court , statute , management , philosophy , epistemology , algorithm , marketing
In 1992 the US Environmental Protection Agency promulgated new drinking water regulations requiring testing for many more contaminants than had previously been monitored. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control sought funding to implement a testing and monitoring program. The state legislature enacted a law authorizing the DHEC to establish a fee schedule based on the number of service connections. Several water systems challenged the fee schedule as a violation of equal protection, the trial court ruled for the water systems. The appellate court reversed the decision stating that the water systems failed to prove that the classification by number of taps violated equal protection.