In FY 15/16, 63 percent of fees assessed were budgeted for direct program staffing and contracts In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-16, 63 percent of fees assessed were directly budgeted in the programs directly related to the fee paying programs. The remaining 37 percent is budgeted to be expended for the following categories, indirect costs (6%), and non-fee paying programs including Basin Planning and TMDLs (16%), water quality monitoring (9%) and enforcement (4%). The difference between fees collected and the budgeted expenditures were funded from fund reserves from previous periods. Since FY 2005-2006, the water quality regulatory programs and the programs and resources supporting those programs are funded directly with the fees collected by these regulated entities under those programs. In establishing the fee schedule the Water Board has to consider all the expenditures related to those programs and distribute the fees among the programs and categories of discharges according to a fee schedule. Fees are assessed and collected to support the workload and activity associated with the Waste Discharge Permit Fund (WDPF).