State of Maine v. Department of Navy

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• concluding that an assessment was a fee and not a tax where the Navy benefitted from the mere availability of a spill response team even though the team had never responded to a spill at the Navy’s shipyard
• applying Massachusetts case in context of State fees charged against a federal agency
• Navy benefits from availability of spill response team, even though team has never responded to spill at shipyard
• permissible to include cost of state emergency response team in state regulatory charge, even though team never had responded to spill at Navy’s facility
• permissible to include cost of state emergency response team in state regulatory charge, even though team never had responded to spill at Navy's facility
• fact that per-pound assessment for safe disposition of hazardous waste was not voluntary did not preclude finding that assessment was a regulatory fee

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