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An act relating to implementation of the recommendations of the Blue-Green Algae Task Force; providing a short title; amending s. 373.4131, F.S.; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to implement a stormwater system inspection and monitoring program for a specified purpose by a specified date; amending s. 381.0065, F.S.; requiring owners of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to have the system periodically inspected, beginning on a specified date; requiring the department to administer the inspection program; requiring the department to implement program standards, procedures, and requirements; providing for rulemaking; amending s. 403.067, F.S.; requiring basin management action plans to describe potential future increases in pollutant loading and provide a comprehensive analysis of options to mitigate such increases; requiring new or revised basin management action plans to include an identification and prioritization of certain spatially focused projects; requiring the department to assess certain projects; requiring certain notices of intent to implement pollution reduction measures to include estimated input reductions and load reductions associated with adopting certain practices; providing hb1225-00 HB 1225 requirements for such reporting; requiring the verification of certain programs to be completed by a specified date; requiring the department to provide all records promptly and in an unadulterated form; providing an effective date. WHEREAS, Governor Ron DeSantis created the Blue-Green Algae Task Force in 2019, to "improve water quality for the benefit of all Floridians," and the task force's consensus report was issued in October 2019, with multiple recommendations for basin management action plans (BMAP), agriculture, human waste, stormwater, technology, public health, and science, and WHEREAS, the Legislature recognizes that in June 2020, Governor DeSantis signed SB 712, the Clean Waterways Act, which implemented many of the recommendations of the task force, and WHEREAS, full implementation of the task force's recommendations will require enactment of additional substantive legislation, NOW, THEREFORE,

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Joy Goff-Marcil (D)*, 

Died in Environment, Agriculture & Flooding Subcommittee (on 04/30/2021)

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