| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to sewage disposal facilities; amending s. |
| 3 | 403.086, F.S.; requiring entities that divert wastewater |
| 4 | flows from facilities discharging wastewater through ocean |
| 5 | outfalls to meet specified reuse requirements; providing |
| 6 | for the recalculation of specified reuse requirements for |
| 7 | facilities from which such flows are diverted; providing |
| 8 | an effective date. |
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| 10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 12 | Section 1. Paragraph (i) is added to subsection (9) of |
| 13 | section 403.086, Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 14 | 403.086 Sewage disposal facilities; advanced and secondary |
| 15 | waste treatment.- |
| 16 | (9) The Legislature finds that the discharge of domestic |
| 17 | wastewater through ocean outfalls wastes valuable water supplies |
| 18 | that should be reclaimed for beneficial purposes to meet public |
| 19 | and natural systems demands. The Legislature also finds that |
| 20 | discharge of domestic wastewater through ocean outfalls |
| 21 | compromises the coastal environment, quality of life, and local |
| 22 | economies that depend on those resources. The Legislature |
| 23 | declares that more stringent treatment and management |
| 24 | requirements for such domestic wastewater and the subsequent, |
| 25 | timely elimination of ocean outfalls as a primary means of |
| 26 | domestic wastewater discharge are in the public interest. |
| 27 | (i) An entity that diverts wastewater flow from a |
| 28 | receiving facility that discharges domestic wastewater through |
| 29 | an ocean outfall is required to meet the 60-percent reuse |
| 30 | requirement of paragraph (c). Reuse of any such flows by the |
| 31 | diverting entity shall be credited to the diverting entity, the |
| 32 | diverted flow shall also be correspondingly deducted from the |
| 33 | receiving facility's actual flow on an annual basis, as |
| 34 | calculated pursuant to paragraph (c), and the receiving |
| 35 | facility's reuse requirement shall be recalculated accordingly. |
| 36 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010. |