Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1032
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
       (Oelrich) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (12)is added to section 403.814,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         403.814 General permits; delegation.—
    8         (12) A general permit shall be granted for the
    9  construction, alteration, and maintenance of a stormwater
   10  management system serving a total project area of up to 15
   11  acres. The construction of such a system may proceed without any
   12  further agency action by the department or water management
   13  district if:
   14         (a) The total project involves less than 10 acres and less
   15  than 2 acres of impervious surface; or
   16         The total project involves less than 15 acres and less than
   17  3 acres of impervious surface if the hardscape portion of the
   18  project has a minimum initial reflectance of 0.30 as certified
   19  by the American Society for Testing and Materials ASTM E903 or
   20  ASTM E1918 standard or a test using a portable reflectometer at
   21  near ambient conditions
   22         (b) No activities will impact wetlands or other surface
   23  waters;
   24         (c) No activities are conducted in, on, or over wetlands or
   25  other surface waters;
   26         (d) Drainage facilities will not include pipes having
   27  diameters greater than 24 inches, or the hydraulic equivalent,
   28  and will not use pumps in any manner;
   29         (e) The project is not part of a larger common plan,
   30  development, or sale.
   31         (f) The project does not:
   32         1. Cause adverse water quantity or flooding impacts to
   33  receiving water and adjacent lands;
   34         2. Cause adverse impacts to existing surface water storage
   35  and conveyance capabilities;
   36         3. Cause a violation of state water quality standards; and
   37         4. Cause an adverse impact to the maintenance of surface or
   38  ground water levels or surface water flows established pursuant
   39  to s. 373.042 or a work of the district established pursuant to
   40  s. 373.086; and
   41         (g) The surface water management system design plans must
   42  be signed and sealed by a Florida registered professional who
   43  shall attest that the system will perform and function as
   44  proposed and has been designed in accordance with appropriate,
   45  generally accepted performance standards and scientific
   46  principles.
   47         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
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   49  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   50         And the title is amended as follows:
   51         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   52  and insert:
   53                        A bill to be entitled                      
   54         An act relating to environmental permits; amending s.
   55         403.814, F.S.; requiring that the Department of
   56         Environmental Protection and the applicable water
   57         management district grant a general permit for the
   58         construction, alteration, and maintenance of certain
   59         surface water management systems; authorizing the
   60         construction of certain surface water management
   61         systems to proceed without further action by the
   62         department or the water management districts;
   63         providing an effective date.