The Florida Senate

403.0625  Environmental laboratory certification; water quality tests conducted by a certified laboratory.--

(1)  To assure the acceptable quality, reliability, and validity of testing results, the department and the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services shall jointly establish criteria for certification of laboratories that perform analyses of environmental water quality samples which are not covered by the provisions in s. 403.863 and that wish to be certified. The ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services shall have the responsibility for the operation and implementation of such laboratory certification. The ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services may charge and collect fees for the certification of such laboratories. The fee schedule shall be based on the number of analytical functions for which certification is sought. Such fees shall be sufficient to meet the costs incurred by the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in administering this program in coordination with the department. All fees collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in a trust fund to be administered by the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services and shall be used only for the purposes of this section.

(2)  An environmental water quality test to determine the quality of the effluent of a domestic wastewater facility must be conducted by a laboratory certified under this section if such test results are to be submitted to the department or a local pollution control program pursuant to s. 403.182.

History.--s. 7, ch. 85-269; s. 3, ch. 88-89; s. 358, 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.