RULE NO: RULE TITLE
18-21.004: Management Policies, Standards, and Criteria
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: Develop the criteria to address fish cleaning stations that are acceptable in, on, or over state-owned submerged land in association with docking structures, fishing piers, and bulkheads, whether physically attached to or placed on a structure, and the criteria to use in authorizing such structures. Considerations are expected to include water quality and resource impacts, forms of authorization, and limiting conditions, with special emphasis on adverse impacts associated with the disposal of fish carcasses and other wastes associated with fish cleaning stations, and how to improve public education on the disposal of fish wastes.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Develop criteria to use in authorizing fish cleaning tables.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 253.03(7), 253.73 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 253.001, 253.03, 253.141, 253.77 FS.
A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: May 15, 2009, 10:00 a.m. (ET)
PLACE: Department of Environmental Protection, Bob Martinez Building, Room 176, Video Conference Room, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, FL
DATE AND TIME: May 15, 2009, 9:00 a.m. (CT)
PLACE: Department of Environmental Protection, Room 501-A, Video Conference Room, 160 Governmental Center, Pensacola, FL
Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 5 days before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Mary VanTassel at (850)245-8486. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Mary VanTassel, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Submerged Lands and Environmental Resources, MS 2500, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, Florida, 32399-2400; telephone (850)245-8486 or e-mail: Mary.VanTassel@dep.state.fl.us. Further information and updates on this rule development also may be obtained from the Department’s Web Site at: www.dep.state.fl.us/water/rules_dr.htm#erp. (OGC No. 08-2795)

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