Florida Senate - 2025                              CS for SB 810
       
       
        
       By the Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and
       Economic Development; and Senator Burgess
       
       
       
       
       606-02760-25                                           2025810c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to stormwater management systems;
    3         amending s. 373.423, F.S.; defining the terms “MS4”
    4         and “MS4 entity”; requiring each MS4 entity to conduct
    5         annual operation and maintenance inspections of
    6         certain stormwater management systems; providing
    7         requirements for such inspections; requiring each MS4
    8         entity to complete a stormwater facility inspection
    9         checklist; requiring that such checklist be submitted
   10         to specified entities annually by a specified date;
   11         requiring that each checklist include certain
   12         information; providing an effective date.
   13          
   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Subsection (4) is added to section 373.423,
   17  Florida Statutes, to read:
   18         373.423 Inspection.—
   19         (4)(a) For purposes of this subsection:
   20         1. “MS4” means a municipal separate storm sewer as defined
   21  in 40 C.F.R. s. 122.26(b).
   22         2. “MS4 entity” means an MS4 permittee.
   23         (b) Each MS4 entity shall conduct annual operation and
   24  maintenance inspections of all permitted stormwater management
   25  systems owned or operated by the MS4 entity. As part of such
   26  inspections, the MS4 entity must identify any infrastructure
   27  within the MS4, or any component thereof, which:
   28         1. Has a significant vulnerability to obstruction,
   29  blockage, deterioration, failure, or other deficiencies; and
   30         2. Upon operational failure, would result in flooding and
   31  property damage.
   32         (c) The MS4 entity shall complete the stormwater facility
   33  inspection checklist developed by the department for each MS4
   34  inspected pursuant to this subsection. The completed checklist
   35  must be submitted to the department and the Division of
   36  Emergency Management by September 1, 2026, and by June 1 of each
   37  year thereafter. Each checklist must include any infrastructure
   38  within the MS4, or any component thereof identified pursuant to
   39  paragraph (b).
   40         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.