Need to Update your Account Info with DRBC?

• Please complete and submit the online Annual Fees Billing Information Update Request Form for any address, contact name, phone number and/or e-mail changes regarding your annual fee billing.
  
  
• Please Note: If you have a facility or ownership name change, please complete and return the Request for Name Change or Transfer of an Approval Form (pdf) with the appropriate fee as described in the form.

The DRBC accepts electronic payments via ACH debit from your bank account for payments of $25.00 or more.

To choose this option:

• Please complete, print and sign the ACH Authorization Form (pdf)
  
  
• Email completed forms to Accounting@drbc.gov or fax to 609-482-8700

If you cannot make your payment:

• Please email Elba Deck at Elba.Deck@drbc.gov or call Elba at 609-477-7201 to discuss an alternative payment schedule.

If you would like to initiate ACH payments from your company:

• Please request the information needed by sending an email to Accounting@drbc.gov. If you choose this option, please include our invoice number in the payment so it is applied properly. 

In 2016, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) unanimously approved several changes to its project review fee structure, including an annual monitoring and coordination fee and an annual, indexed inflation adjustment for most fees and water supply charges. These changes became effective January 1, 2017.

Fees will increase commensurate with any increase in the annual April 12-month Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Philadelphia, published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics during that year. In any year in which the April 12-month CPI for Philadelphia declines or shows no change, the water charges rates will remain unchanged.

Annual, indexed inflation adjustments take effect on July 1 of each year.

• NEW! View rates effective July 1, 2025, as published in the Federal Register (pdf; dated May 19, 20205; view online)

The most recent annual, indexed inflation adjustment took effect July 1, 2024.

• DRBC Regulatory Program Fees & Water Charging Annual Rate Adjustments Effective July 1, 2024 as Published in Federal Register (pdf)
  
  
• View online version of Federal Register Notice
  
  
  • Annual Monitoring and Coordination Fee
    
    
  • Project Review Fee Information
    
    
  • Water Supply Charges: Surface Water Rates
    

Questions?

Please email annualfee@drbc.gov or call 609-477-7255.

Annual Monitoring and Coordination Fee (current as of July 1, 2024)

¹Rates effective July 1, 2024, as published in the Federal Register Notice announcing the rate adjustments (pdf). 

Rates are subject to an annual, indexed inflation adjustment in accordance with the approved resolution (pdf).

mgm = million gallons per month

mgd = million gallons per day

Related Webpages

• DRBC Project Review: Applications and Information for Docket Holders
  
  
• DRBC Water Charging Program
  
  
• DRBC One Process/One Permit Program

Related Regulations

• DRBC Rules of Practice and Procedure (pdf)
  
  
• Basin Regulations: Water Supply Charges (pdf)
  
  

2016 Rulemaking Information

• Approved Resolution: Resolution to Amend the Rules of Practice and Procedure Concerning Regulatory Program Fees and the Basin Regulations - Water Supply Charges Concerning Rates (pdf) 
  
  
  • For authoritative rule text, please see the Federal Register Notice, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) or DRBC Administrative Manual (Rules of Practice and Procedure and Water Supply Charges), all of which include minor changes from the text in the resolution to conform to CFR requirements.
    
    
• Comment and Response Document (pdf)
  
  
• FAQ: DRBC Project Review Fee and Water Supply Charge Revisions (pdf)
  
  
• News Release issued 12/14/16
  
  
• Notice of Final Rulemaking Re: Fees as Published in Federal Register - Authoritative Rule Text (pdf)