(a) Inspections and tests.--The department shall have authority to fix, adjust, assess and collect, or cause to be collected, fees for the certification inspection service and requested seed tests authorized by this chapter. Such fees shall be large enough to meet the reasonable expenses incurred by the department or its agents in making such inspections as may be necessary for seed certification and conducting requested tests.

(b) Service samples.--

(1) The testing fee may be required to accompany the sample.

(2) Fees shall be paid by check or money order made payable to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

(3) There shall be a $5 late fee assessed for every month that the testing fee is past due.

(4) A Pennsylvania Noxious Weed Seed Examination shall be included with all purity analyses.

(5) Service Sample Fees.

Kind of Seed

Purity Analysis (including Pennsylvania

State Noxious

Weed Seed Examination)

Germination

Test

Combined

Purity

Analysis and

Germination

Test

Alfalfa

$7.00

$5.50

$12.00

Barley

7.00

5.50

12.00

Beans, garden

6.00

6.50

12.00

Beans, Lima

6.00

7.50

13.00

Bent grass

14.00

8.00

21.50

Bluestems

26.00

8.00

33.50

Bird's-foot

trefoil

7.00

5.50

12.00

Bluegrass

15.00

8.00

22.50

Bromegrass

10.00

7.50

17.00

Buckwheat

7.00

5.50

12.00

Clovers

7.00

5.50

12.00

Corn

5.00

6.50

11.00

Crown vetch

8.00

6.50

14.00

Deer's-tongue

grass

10.00

7.50

17.00

Fescues

10.00

7.50

17.00

Flat pea

6.00

7.50

13.00

Millets

8.50

6.50

14.50

Oats (including

fluorescence

test)

8.00

5.50

13.00

Orchard grass

12.00

7.00

18.50

Peas

5.00

6.50

11.00

Redtop

14.00

8.00

21.50

Reed

Canary grass

9.00

6.50

15.00

Rye

7.00

5.50

12.00

Ryegrass

9.00

6.00

14.50

Ryegrass (including

fluorescence

test)

9.00

10.50

19.00

Sorghums

8.00

6.50

14.00

Soybeans

6.00

7.50

13.00

Sudan grass

8.00

6.50

14.00

Timothy

7.00

5.50

12.00

Tobacco

8.00

6.50

14.00

Vetch

8.00

6.50

14.00

Wheat

7.00

5.50

12.00

Flowers

8.00

6.50

14.00

Vegetables

and herbs

except beans,

corn and peas

8.00

5.50

13.00

Tree, forb and

shrub:

without embryo

excision

8.00

9.00

16.50

with embryo

excision

8.00

20.00

27.00

with embryo

excision and

removal of pits

8.00

22.00

29.00

Mixtures:

Lawn and

turf:

Two components

22.00

16.00

36.00

Each

additional

component

8.00

8.00

15.00

Germination only

8.00 extra

Pasture, hay and

conservation:

Two components

12.00

14.00

25.00

Each

additional

component

5.00

7.00

11.00

Germination only

6.00 extra

Miscellaneous

charges:

Interstate

noxious weed

examinations:

Lawn and turf

with purity

6.00 extra

Lawn and turf

without purity

20.00

All others

with purity

5.00 extra

Pennsylvania

Noxious Weed

Seed Examination:

Lawn and turf

grasses and

mixtures

15.00

All others

4.00

Cold test

10.00

Canada standards

test

10.00

Identification

5.00

Embryo excision

test

15.00

Rush

10.00

Extra laboratory

report

2.00

Tests not listed,

special

procedures,

extra time, etc.

20.00 per hour

(c) Seed certification.--

(1) The department will provide annually a schedule listing application, inspection, tag and label fees.

(2) An applicant shall include the appropriate application fee payment for each crop. Fees shall be paid by check or money order made payable to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Fees are nonrefundable.

(3) The field inspection fee is based on the total acres inspected or, in the case of grass and legumes, the pounds of clean seed produced. An invoice stating the amount of the fee will be sent to the applicant.

(4) Acreage or plants withdrawn by the applicant prior to the actual inspection may not be included except as provided for in regulation.

(5) Application and inspection fees.

Crop

Application Fee

Inspection Fee

Potatoes (other

than pronuclear

seed potatoes)

$25.00

$10 per acre

Prenuclear seed

potatoes

15¢ per sq. ft.,

assessed once

(greenhouse)

25.00

per crop

Prenuclear seed

potatoes

$50 assessed

(laboratory)

25.00

annually

Tobacco

25.00

$50 (minimum)

Winter barley,

wheat, rye

25.00

$3 per acre

Hybrid field corn

25.00

$7 per acre

Spring barley, oats

25.00

$3 per acre

Soybean

25.00

$3 per acre

Grass, legume

25.00

4¢ per pound

production fee;

any field inspection

$3 per acre

Turfgrass sod

25.00

$4 per acre

(preplant

inspection)

$7 per acre

(final inspection)

Trees

25.00

Fees based on the

actual

administrative

costs incurred by

the department

(6) Tag and label fees.

Tag

Label

Pennsylvania certified seed

10¢

10¢

Interagency certified seed

15¢

15¢

Pennsylvania certified sod

20¢

Pennsylvania certified seed potatoes

10¢

(7) There is a $25 per lot fee for each official interagency sample received.

(8) The shipping inspection fee for potatoes is $30 per inspection.

(d) Adjustment of fee.--If the secretary determines following notice to the licensees that moneys derived from the registration and inspection fees are either greater or less than that required to administer this chapter, the secretary may reduce or increase the inspection fee so as to maintain revenues sufficient to administer this chapter.

(e) Notice.--The secretary shall announce the adjustment of fees by publishing a notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. The adjusted fees shall take effect 60 days after publication of such notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.