| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to surface water improvement and |
| 3 | management plans and programs; amending s. 373.453, F.S.; |
| 4 | requiring water management districts to establish |
| 5 | permitting programs for urban redevelopment projects |
| 6 | located in specified redevelopment areas; providing for |
| 7 | the development of stormwater adaptive management plans to |
| 8 | address water quantity discharge for such redevelopment |
| 9 | areas; providing for certain discharge rates in such |
| 10 | redevelopment areas; requiring stormwater discharges in |
| 11 | such redevelopment areas to meet state water quality |
| 12 | standards; providing water quality criteria for such |
| 13 | discharges; providing an effective date. |
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| 15 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 17 | Section 1. Subsection (7) is added to section 373.453, |
| 18 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 19 | 373.453 Surface water improvement and management plans and |
| 20 | programs.- |
| 21 | (7)(a) Each water management district shall establish a |
| 22 | permitting program for urban redevelopment projects located |
| 23 | within a community redevelopment area created under chapter 163 |
| 24 | or an urban infill and redevelopment area designated under s. |
| 25 | 163.2517. |
| 26 | (b) A jurisdiction with a community redevelopment area or |
| 27 | an urban infill and redevelopment area may develop a stormwater |
| 28 | adaptive management plan to address stormwater quantity |
| 29 | discharge for the redevelopment area. Effective July 1, 2011, |
| 30 | the rate of stormwater discharge from a redevelopment area under |
| 31 | this subsection may not exceed the maximum rate of stormwater |
| 32 | discharge within the area as of that date. |
| 33 | (c) Stormwater discharge from a community redevelopment |
| 34 | area or an urban infill and redevelopment area into waters of |
| 35 | the state must meet state water quality standards at the point |
| 36 | of discharge. If numeric criteria for pollutants of concern are |
| 37 | not established for a water body, any stormwater discharge under |
| 38 | this subsection into such a water body may not degrade the water |
| 39 | body beyond its existing classification. Any discharge of |
| 40 | stormwater under this subsection into an impaired water body is |
| 41 | authorized only to the extent that the discharge reduces the |
| 42 | daily loading for pollutants of concern by 10 percent from the |
| 43 | predevelopment condition of the water body to its |
| 44 | postdevelopment condition. |
| 45 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011. |