Amend the amendment in section 2 in §1695 by inserting after subsection 3 the following:

summary

Under the provisions of Committee Amendment "A," the Department of Environmental Protection is allowed to assess a fee on a manufacturer or distributor to cover the costs to prepare an independent report regarding safer alternatives and to cover the department's reasonable costs in managing information it receives from a manufacturer or distributor.

This amendment specifies that the determination of the fee amount must be done through major substantive rulemaking.