Published on: 23873366. The purpose and effect of the proposed amendments to rules in Chapter 40C-2, F.A.C., will be to create part of the recovery strategy, pursuant to subsection 373.0421(2), F.S., for the minimum flows or levels (MFLs) for Lake ....
Published on: 20649280. The purpose and effect of the proposed amendments to rules in Chapter 40C-2, F.A.C., will be to update the types of consumptive use permits the District staff is delegated the authority to approve, and make conforming changes, corrections, and clarifications in the 40C-2 rules and in the Applicant’s Handbook, Consumptive Uses of Water (AH), which is incorporated by reference in 40C-2.101(1)(a).
Published on: 20389514. The purpose and effect of the proposed amendments to rules in Chapter 40C-2, F.A.C., will be to create prevention or recovery strategies, pursuant to subsection 373.0421(2), F.S., for one or more of the following surface waters, for which the District is required by subsection 373.042, F.S., to adopt minimum flows or levels (MFLs) to protect: Lake Brooklyn and Lake Geneva in Clay and Bradford Counties.
Published on: 20304833. The purpose and effect of the proposed amendments to rules in Chapter 40C-2, F.A.C., will be to update the types of consumptive use permits the District staff is delegated the authority to approve.
Published on: 19430378. The purposes and effects of the proposed rule amendments are to: (1) delete 40C-2.031(1)(e), consistent with deletion of the secondary user permit requirement in 40C-2.041(1)(f); (2) clarify surface water intake diameter in 40C-2.041(1)(e) and 40C-2.041(3)(e); (3) delete the secondary user permit requirement in 40C-2.041(1)(f) and make conforming changes throughout 40C-2; (4) create new requirement that only one consumptive use permit (CUP) application can remain pending at a time, subject to certain exceptions for renewals and letter modifications, in new 40C-2.041(8)-(10); (5) clarify that the general permit by rule for irrigating agricultural crops and nursery plants in 40C-2.042(1) is limited to certain agricultural lands; (6) clarify the irrigation zone for new plantings for the landscape irrigation general permit by rule in 40C-2.042(2)(a)3.b., consistent with existing 40C-2.042(1)(d); (7) amend 40C-2.042(10) to simplify criteria for the environmental restoration and enhancement general permit by rule (GPR) and allow transfer of the GPR to certain local governments; (8) amend 40C-2.042(11) to simplify criteria for the general permit by rule for certain aquifer performance tests (APT); (9) amend 40C-2.042(12) to allow certain grandfathered existing HVAC system wells to be used for domestic heating and cooling, and irrigation of one acre or less of landscape in accordance with 40C-2.042(8), F.A.C., without a return well; (10) create a new general permit by rule for certain temporary emergency water uses in 40C-2.042(13); (11) expand the permit exemption for fire protection in 40C-2.051(9); (12) delete 40C-2.051(11), consistent with deletion of the secondary user permit requirement in 40C-2.041(1)(f); (13) amend 40C-2.101(1)(a) to incorporate an amended Applicant’s Handbook, Consumptive Uses of Water (AH), which amendments are described further below; (14) delete water quality permitting criterion in 40C-2.301(2)(h) to be consistent with the other water management districts, and make conforming changes throughout 40C-2; (15) delete unnecessary limitation on use of permit modifications by letter in 40C-2.331(1)(c)4.; (16) expand use of permit modifications by letter in 40C-2.331(1)(c)7.b. for replacing or relocating certain wells; (17) amend 40C-2.900(7) to clarify Line 4A of incorporated Form No. 40C-2.900(7) (Water Audit Form); and (18) make conforming changes, corrections, and clarifications throughout. The amendments to 40C-2.101(1)(a) and the Applicant’s Handbook, Consumptive Uses of Water (AH) will: (1) delete references to secondary users throughout the Applicant’s Handbook, consistent with deletion of the secondary user permit requirement in 40C-2.041(1)(f); (2) amend the criteria in Section 1.4.3.3(a) for a modification of a permit by letter, consistent with the amendment to 40C-2.331(1)(c); (3) amend Sections 1.4.5.3.2 through 1.4.5.3.4 regarding administrative denials; (4) amend a staff-issued permit threshold in Section 1.4.5.5.2, consistent with the amendment to 40C-2.041(4)(e).; (5) add “market conditions” to the factors listed in Section 1.5.4 for agricultural consumptive use permits for irrigation that will not result in a reduction of the permitted allocation during the term of the permit; (6) delete Sections 2.3(h) and 5.2(f)-(h), consistent with the deletion of 40C-2.301(2)(h); and (7) make conforming changes, corrections, and clarifications throughout, consistent with the amendments to 40C-2 described above.
Published on: 19198742. Rule Development Workshop to discuss and receive public input on proposed rule amendments to chapter 40C-2, F.A.C.
NOTE: Members of the District’s Governing Board may attend the scheduled Rule Development Workshop.
; August 3, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.; Governing Board Room, St. Johns River Water Management District, 4049 Reid Street, Palatka, Florida 32177. By July 27, 2017, information on how to attend the rule workshop by telephone will be available at: http://sjrwmd.com/ruledevelopment/ under the Notice of Rule Development column for this rulemaking (CUP Streamlining 2017).
Published on: 18669704. Rule Development Workshop to discuss and receive public input on proposed rule amendments associated with the prevention strategy for Silver Springs in Marion County, which is an Outstanding Florida Spring (OFS). Under paragraph 373.042(2)(a), F.S., the Silver Springs MFLs (or emergency MFLs), along with any needed prevention strategy (which may include rules or emergency rules), must be effective by July 1, 2017. This Notice is a correction to the last sentence of the Notice of Rule Workshop published in the Vol. 43 No. 40, February 28, 2017 issue of the Florida Administrative Register, to clarify that the proposed strategy would be a prevention strategy.
NOTE: Members of the District’s Governing Board may attend the scheduled Rule Development Workshop.
; March 16, 2016, 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.; Marion County Commission Auditorium, 601 SE 25th Ave., Ocala, Florida 34471