RULE NO: RULE TITLE
62-347.100: Purpose.
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Department, in coordination with the water management districts, proposes to develop a new Chapter 62-347, F.A.C., to develop updated stormwater quality treatment design and performance standards. These design and performance standards will update the existing criteria and reflect new research on design and performance standards, and particularly today’s understanding of the impact of nutrient discharges from surface water management systems on water quality. The goal of the rule is to provide stormwater quality treatment design and performance standards that can be applied state-wide. The proposed rule will apply to new systems.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Develop updated stormwater quality treatment design and performance standards for surface water management systems, with particular emphasis on standards that will reduce nutrient discharges.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.418, 403.805(1) FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 373.042, 373.409, 373.413, 373.4142, 373.4145, 373.416, 373.4132, 373.426, 373.429 FS.
IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE NOTICED IN THE NEXT AVAILABLE FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE WEEKLY.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Alice Heathcock, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Submerged Lands and Environmental Resources, MS 2500, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400, telephone (850)245-8483, or e-mail: Alice.Heathcock@dep.state.fl.us. Further information and updates on this proposed rule also may be obtained from the Department’s Web Site at: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/wetlands/erp/rules/rulestat.htm. (OGC No. 07-0552)

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.