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Other Provisions

Act 57 includes several other provisions that affect how an authority calculates its fees and responds to the needs of developers in the community:

For example, the act preserves the authority's ability to include the estimated cost of future capacity facilities and clarifies the requirements for such inclusion. At the same time, however, it includes a provision designed to prevent authorities from simply including facilities for the sole purpose of increasing their tapping fee. This provision will require the authority to refund that portion of the tapping fee that relates to future facilities when those facilities are not placed in service within seven years (or fifteen years for authorities providing service to five or more municipalities).

Under another provision of the act, certain costs related to improving existing facilities can now be incorporated into the basis of the tapping fee. These costs were previously intended to be excluded when they solely benefited existing users of the system.

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