Bill > H1343

Introduced Session

An act relating to environmental resource management; providing a short title; requiring the Department of Health to provide a report regarding the Onsite Sewage Program to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; directing the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to submit recommendations regarding the transfer of the program to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; requiring the departments to enter into an interagency agreement that meets certain requirements by a specified date; transferring the Onsite Sewage Program in the Department of Health to the Department of Environmental Protection; providing that certain employees retain and transfer certain types of leave upon the transfer; amending s. 20.255, F.S.; revising the number of Cabinet members required to concur with the appointment of the Secretary of Environmental Protection; amending s. 373.036, F.S.; directing water management districts to submit consolidated annual reports to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; requiring such reports to include connection and conversion projects for onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; amending s. 373.223, F.S.; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, in coordination with the water management districts, to conduct a study on the bottled water industry in the state; providing requirements for the study; requiring the department to submit a report to the Governor, Legislature, and Office of Economic and Demographic Research by a specified date; providing definitions; prohibiting the approval of certain consumptive use permits; providing exceptions; providing for expiration of such prohibition; amending s. 373.4131, F.S.; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to include stormwater structural control inspections as part of its regular staff training; requiring the department and the water management districts to adopt rules regarding stormwater design and operation regulations by a specified date and address specified information as part of such rule development; requiring the department to evaluate data relating to self- certification and provide the Legislature with recommendations for improvements; amending s. 381.0065, F.S.; authorizing the use of specified nutrient reducing onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to meet certain total maximum daily load requirements; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules relating to the location of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems and complete such rulemaking by a specified date; providing requirements for such rules; requiring the department to determine that a hardship exists for certain variance applicants; providing a definition; providing that certain provisions relating to existing setback requirements are applicable to permits only until the effective date of certain rules adopted by the department; removing provisions requiring certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal system research projects to be approved by a Department of Health technical review and advisory panel; removing provisions prohibiting the award of research projects to certain entities; removing provisions establishing a Department of Health onsite sewage treatment and disposal system research review and advisory committee; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 381.00651, F.S.; directing county health departments to coordinate with the Department of Environmental Protection to administer onsite sewage treatment and disposal system evaluation and assessment programs; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; creating s. 381.00652, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Department of Health, to appoint an onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems technical advisory committee; providing for committee purpose, membership, and expiration; requiring the committee to submit its recommendations to the Governor and Legislature; repealing s. 381.0068, F.S., relating to the Department of Health onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems technical review and advisory panel; amending s. 403.061, F.S.; requiring the department to adopt rules relating to domestic wastewater collection and transmission system pipe leakages and inflow and infiltration; requiring the department to adopt rules to require public utilities or their affiliated companies holding, applying for, or renewing a domestic wastewater discharge permit to file certain annual reports and data with the department; creating s. 403.0616, F.S.; requiring the department, subject to legislative appropriation, to establish a real-time water quality monitoring program; encouraging the formation of public-private partnerships; amending s. 403.067, F.S.; requiring basin management action plans for nutrient total maximum daily loads to include wastewater treatment and onsite sewage treatment and disposal system remediation plans that meet certain requirements; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to collect fertilizer application records from certain agricultural producers and provide the information to the department annually by a specified date; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to perform onsite inspections of the agricultural producers at specified intervals; providing for prioritization of such inspections; requiring certain basin management action plans to include cooperative agricultural regional water quality improvement elements; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in cooperation with specified entities, to annually develop research plans and legislative budget requests relating to best management practices by a specified date; requiring such entities to submit such plans to the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by a specific date; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to work with specified entities to consider the adoption of best management practices for nutrient impacts from golf courses; creating s. 403.0671, F.S.; directing the Department of Environmental Protection, in coordination with specified entities, to submit a report regarding wastewater projects identified in the basin management action plans to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date and to submit certain wastewater project cost estimates to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; creating s. 403.0673, F.S.; establishing a wastewater grant program within the Department of Environmental Protection; authorizing the department to distribute appropriated funds for certain projects; providing requirements for the distribution; requiring the department to coordinate with each water management district to identify grant recipients; requiring an annual report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; creating s. 403.0855, F.S.; providing legislative findings regarding the regulation of biosolids management in this state; requiring the department to adopt rules; providing that such rules are not effective until ratified by the Legislature; providing requirements for certain biosolids land application site permitees and permits; providing a definition; authorizing the enforcement or extension of certain local government regulations relating to the land application of specified biosolids until such regulations are repealed; amending s. 403.086, F.S.; prohibiting sewage disposal facilities from disposing waste into the Indian River Lagoon beginning on a specified date without certain advanced waste treatment; directing the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with specified entities, to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; requiring sewage disposal facilities to have a power outage contingency plan, to take steps to prevent overflows and leaks and ensure that the wastewater reaches the facility for appropriate treatment, and to provide the Department of Environmental Protection with certain information; requiring the department to adopt rules; limiting the scope of such rules; authorizing utilities and operating entities to consolidate certain reports; providing that specified compliance is evidence in mitigation for assessment of certain penalties; amending s. 403.087, F.S.; requiring the department to issue operation permits for certain domestic wastewater treatment facilities under certain circumstances; amending s. 403.088, F.S.; revising the permit conditions for a water pollution operation permit; requiring the department to submit a report identifying all domestic wastewater treatment facilities that experienced sanitary sewer overflows to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; amending s. 403.0891, F.S.; requiring model stormwater management programs to contain model ordinances for nutrient reduction practices and green infrastructure; amending s. 403.121, F.S.; revising administrative penalties for violations of ch. 403, F.S.; amending ss. 403.1835 and 403.1838, F.S.; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to give funding priority to certain domestic wastewater utility projects; amending s. 403.412, F.S.; prohibiting local governments from recognizing or granting certain legal rights to the natural environment or granting such rights relating to the natural environment to a person or political subdivision; providing construction; providing a determination and declaration of important state interest; amending ss. 153.54, 153.73, 163.3180, 180.03, 311.105, 327.46, 373.250, 373.414, 373.705, 373.707, 373.709, 373.807, 376.307, 380.0552, 381.006, 381.0061, 381.0064, 381.0101, 403.08601, 403.0871, 403.0872, 403.707, 403.861, 489.551, and 590.02, F.S.; conforming cross-references and provisions to changes made by the act; providing a directive to the Division of Law Revision; providing effective dates.

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Bobby Payne (R)*,  James Buchanan (R),  Mike Caruso (R),  Chuck Clemons (R),  Kimberly Daniels (D),  Fentrice Driskell (D),  Dane Eagle (R),  Randy Fine (R),  Erin Grall (R),  Delores Hogan Johnson (D),  Blaise Ingoglia (R),  Kristin Jacobs (D),  Dotie Joseph (D),  Thomas Leek (R),  Randy Maggard (R),  Toby Overdorf (R),  Rick Roth (R),  Tyler Sirois (R),  Jackeline Toledo (R),  Ardian Zika (R), 

Other Sponsors (1)

Laid on Table - Companion bill(s) CS/CS/SB 712 passed (on 03/10/2020)

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