The Florida Senate

403.085  Sanitary sewage disposal units; advanced and secondary waste treatment; industrial waste, ocean outfall, inland outfall, or disposal well waste treatment.--

(1)  Neither the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services nor any other state agency, county, special district, or municipality shall approve construction of any ocean outfall or disposal well for sanitary sewage disposal which does not provide for secondary waste treatment and, in addition thereto, advanced waste treatment as deemed necessary and ordered by the department.

(2)  Sanitary sewage disposal treatment plants which discharge effluent through ocean outfalls or disposal wells on July 1, 1970, shall provide for secondary waste treatment and, in addition thereto, advanced waste treatment as deemed necessary and ordered by the former Department of Environmental Regulation by January 3, 1974. Failure to conform by said date shall be punishable by a fine of $500 for each 24-hour day or fraction thereof that such failure is allowed to continue thereafter.

(3)  Neither the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services nor any other state agency, county, special district, or municipality shall approve construction of any ocean outfall, inland outfall, or disposal well for the discharge of industrial waste of any kind which does not provide for secondary waste treatment or such other treatment as is deemed necessary and ordered by the department.

(4)  Industrial plants or facilities which discharge industrial waste of any kind through ocean outfalls, inland outfalls, or disposal wells on July 1, 1971, shall provide for secondary waste treatment or such other waste treatment as deemed necessary and ordered by January 1, 1973, by the former Department of Environmental Regulation. Failure to conform by said date shall be punishable as provided in s. 403.161(2).

History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 70-82; s. 2, ch. 71-137; s. 1, ch. 71-274; s. 270, ch. 77-147; s. 74, ch. 79-65; s. 360, ch. 94-356.

¹Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.