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

CAA published California’s 2026 Early Fee Schedule on July 20, 2026, setting six flat per-pound rates for this program year. It is a separate instrument from the draft 2027 per-material schedule. When we added it, it reached the hub, the California state page and Ask Atlas, but not the EPR fees by state page or the machine-readable summary at llms.txt. For roughly two weeks those two surfaces described California as having no published 2026 schedule while the rest of the site described the rates in detail. Fifteen instances were corrected on August 3, 2026, and a cross-surface check now runs on every build that fails if any two pages give different values for the same figure. If you read the fees-by-state page during that window, re-check California. Source: CAA, 2026 California Early Fee Schedule, published July 20, 2026.

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