14342825, 62-600.100 - Florida Administrative Rules, Law, Code, Register

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Notice: 14342825

Notice of Development of Rulemaking

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Chapter:

DOMESTIC WASTEWATER FACILITIES

Overview

RULE:

62-600.100	Scope, Intent, Purpose, and Applicability
62-600.120	Exemptions
62-600.200	Definitions
62-600.300	General Technical Documents
62-600.400	Design Requirements
62-600.405	Planning for Wastewater Facilities Expansion
62-600.410	Operation and Maintenance Requirements
62-600.420	Minimum Treatment Standards - Technology Based Effluent Limitations (TBELs)
62-600.430	Additional Treatment - Water Quality - Based Effluent Limitations (WQBELs)
62-600.440	Disinfection Requirements
62-600.445	pH Requirements
62-600.500	General
62-600.510	Discharge to Surface Waters (Excluding Coastal and Open Ocean)
62-600.520	Discharge to Surface Waters - (Coastal and Open Ocean)
62-600.530	Reuse of Reclaimed Water and Land Application (Repealed)
62-600.540	Underground Injection
62-600.550	Wastewater Management Requirements for the Wekiva Study Area
62-600.700	General
62-600.720	Operation and Maintenance Manual
62-600.735	Operation and Maintenance Performance Report
62-600.740	Compliance and Enforcement

PURPOSE:

The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) gives notice that it is amending Chapter 62-600, F.A.C., to update, clarify, and eliminate redundancy in requirements applicable to domestic wastewater facilities.  Rules will be revised to simplify and clarify requirements, correct rule references, and to be made consistent with more recently adopted rules and statutory requirements.  Rules will be repealed where requirements are obsolete, duplicative of other rules or statutory requirements, or have been superseded by other rules or statutory requirements.  As part of this rulemaking effort, some requirements from Chapter 62-601, F.A.C., Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant Monitoring, will be incorporated into Chapter 62-600, F.A.C.  Chapter 62-601, F.A.C., will then be repealed simultaneously with the rulemaking to adopt the amendments to 62-600, F.A.C.

SUBJECT:

Chapter 62-600, F.A.C., will be revised in order to simplify design, operation, monitoring, and reporting requirements applicable to domestic wastewater facilities.  Domestic wastewater facility requirements are being revised to clarify reliability design requirements, applicability of specific operation and maintenance requirements, innovative and alternative treatment process requirements, sampling methodology, sinkhole reporting requirements, permit monitoring effective date, flow recording device calibration requirements, procedures for electronic submittal of monitoring results, and minimum ground water monitoring requirements.  Requirements are also being updated to be consistent with other DEP rules, including Chapters 62-520, 62-528, 62-610, and 62-640, Florida Department of Health Chapter 64-E-6, F.A.C., and ocean outfall legislation adopted in Section 403.086(9), F.S.  Domestic wastewater facility requirements are being revised to eliminate obsolete and redundant requirements, including requirements for obtaining construction permits, exemptions from state water quality criteria no longer in use, test methods approved specifically for domestic wastewater facilities, and requirements redundant to or superseded by Chapters 62-4, 62-610, 62-620, and 62-650, F.A.C.  DEP is also soliciting other suggestions for clarifying, streamlining, reducing costs, or other items that may be beneficial to domestic wastewater management.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

369.318(1), 403.051, 403.061, 403.062, 403.086, 403.087, 403.088, 403.859 FS.

LAW:

369.318(1), 403.021, 403.051, 403.061, 403.062, 403.085, 403.086, 403.087, 403.088, 403.0881, 403.121, 403.131, 403.161, 403.859 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

3/27/2014 Vol. 40/60

RELATED STATUTES
AND LAWS:

369.318(1), 403.051, 403.061, 403.062, 403.086, 403.087, 403.088, 403.859 FS., 369.318(1), 403.021, 403.051, 403.061, 403.062, 403.085, 403.086, 403.087, 403.088, 403.0881, 403.121, 403.131, 403.161, 403.859 FS.

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:

Joint Administrative Procedures Committee
Florida Administrative Law Central Online Network (F.A.L.C.O.N.)

RELATED COURT CASES:

Division of Administrative Hearings

FEDERAL eRULEMAKING
WEB PORTAL:

Regulations.gov

HOW TO LINK TO
THIS NOTICE:

http://flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=62-600.100&PDate=3/27/2014&Section=1

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