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Correction: the California 2026 early fee schedule was missing from two pages

Site Update update, August 3, 2026. Part of the EPR Atlas weekly packaging EPR update log.

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Site Update  |  U.S.  |  August 3, 2026

What was wrong. California producers are invoiced this program year against a 2026 early fee schedule that CAA published on July 20, 2026: six flat per-pound rates. It is a different instrument from the draft 2027 per-material schedule, and reading the wrong one gives you the wrong number. Between July 20 and August 3, 2026, our EPR fees by state page said California had no published 2026 fee schedule. That was incorrect. What to check. If you looked up California on the fees-by-state page during those two weeks and came away thinking there was nothing published to pay against for 2026, look again. If you used the California state page, the fee calculator or Ask Atlas in that window, those carried the correct rates throughout and nothing you took from them is affected. Resolved August 3, 2026. Source: CAA, 2026 California Early Fee Schedule, published July 20, 2026.

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