Florida Senate - 2009 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB 274 Barcode 264116 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: 1/AD/2R . 04/28/2009 03:20 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Constantine moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment 2 3 Delete lines 327 - 340 4 and insert: 5 (3) All new septic systems installed on or after January 1, 6 2010 that are located on properties abutting a water body or 7 water segment that is listed as impaired pursuant to s. 403.067, 8 or properties within a designated spring protection zone 9 pursuant to 369.404, must be designed to meet a target annual 10 average groundwater concentration of no more than 3 milligrams 11 per liter total nitrogen at the owner’s property line. 12 Compliance with these requirements does not require groundwater 13 monitoring. The department must initiate and develop by rule 14 design standards for achieving this target annual average 15 groundwater concentration. At a minimum, this standard must take 16 into consideration the relationship between the treatment level 17 achieved by the septic system and the area of usable property 18 available for rainwater dilution. Such design standards adopted 19 by the department must provide multiple options that may be used 20 to meet the standards established in s. 369.406(3). 21 (4) Prior to adoption of the design standards by the 22 department, compliance with the requirements in 23