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Published on: 23987826. In conjunction with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) is beginning rulemaking to update the environmental resource permitting (ERP) stormwater ....
Published on: 16812736. Management District (SJRWMD) initiated rulemaking to amend its rules consistent with By notice published in the Florida Administrative Register on February 12, 2015, the St. Johns River Water Section 373.4131, F.S. These rules were last amended on October 1, 2013, to make them consistent with section 373.4131, F.S., which required the Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) in coordination with the five water management districts (“WMDs”) to develop statewide environmental resource permitting (“ERP”) rules. The purpose and effect of this rulemaking will be to make corrections and provide clarifications that have been identified as necessary since October 1, 2013. More specifically, the rulemaking will: (1) delete the reference to standard and general (stormwater) permits in 40C-41.063(4) since the statewide ERP rules only provide for issuance of conceptual approval and individual permits; (2) reflect the movement of 40C-42.091 into 40C-4.091; (3) replace, with better graphics, the figures depicting special basins (identified as Figures 41-1 through 41-4 in 40C-41.023, and as Figures 13.0-1 through 13.0-4 in the “Environmental Resource Permit Applicant’s Handbook, Volume II: For Use within the Geographic Limits of the St. Johns River Water Management District” (Volume II) which is incorporated by reference in 40C-41.043(5)); and (4) update the effective date for Part VI of Volume II as SJRWMD also will correct wording glitches in Volume II. These corrections include deleting language in 13.4.4.(d) (Off-site Land Preservation) that SJRWMD had intended to delete in the previous rulemaking to reflect the adoption of the Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method (UMAM), inserting language in 13.4.2 (Floodplain Storage Criteria) that it had intended to carry over from the rule as it existed before October 1, 2013, and amending Appendix B of Volume II to reflect that lands within Polk County were transferred to the Southwest Florida Water Management District, effective at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2003, per subsection 373.0691(2), Florida Statutes (2015).
Published on: 15659406. The St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) gives notice that it is initiating rulemaking to amend the above-referenced rules. These rules were last amended on October 1, 2013, to make them consistent with section 373.4131, F.S., which required the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in coordination with the five water management districts (WMDs) to develop statewide environmental resource permitting (ERP) rules. The purpose and effect of this rulemaking will be to make corrections and provide clarifications that have been identified as necessary since October 1, 2013. More specifically, the rulemaking will: (1) delete the reference to standard and general (stormwater) permits in 40C-41.063(4) since the statewide ERP rules only provide for issuance of conceptual approval and individual permits; (2) reflect the transfer of 40C-42.091 into 40C-4.091; (3) replace, with better graphics, the figures depicting special basins (identified as Figures 41-1 through 41-4 in 40C-4.023, and as Figures 13.0-1 through 13.0-4 in the “Environmental Resource Permit Applicant’s Handbook, Volume II: For Use within the Geographic Limits of the St. Johns River Water Management District” (Volume II) which is incorporated by reference in 40C-41.043(5)); and (3) update the effective date for Part VI of Volume II as SJRWMD also will correct wording glitches in Volume II, and replace, with better graphics, the figures depicting soils (identified as Figures 13.5-1 and 13.5-2 in Volume II). These corrections include deleting language in 13.4.4.(d) (Off-site Land Preservation) that SJRWMD had intended to delete in the previous rulemaking to reflect the adoption of the Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method (UMAM) and inserting language in 13.4.2 (Floodplain Storage Criteria) that it had intended to carry over from the rule as it existed before October 1, 2013.
Published on: 13081049. This is a continuation of the April 9, 2013 public hearing to adopt amendments in chapters 40C-1, 40C-4, 40C-41, 40C-42, and 40C-44, F.A.C., and amend the sections of the St. Johns River Water Management District Applicant’s Handbook (Volume II) that will be incorporated by reference as a result of the proposed amendments.; June 11, 2013, following the Regulatory Committee Meeting that begins as 11:00 a.m.; Governing Board Room, St. Johns River Water Management District, 4049 Reid Street, Palatka, Florida 32177
Published on: 12763471. By notice published in the Florida Administrative Weekly on August 24, 2012, the St. Johns River Water Management District (“SJRWMD”) initiated rulemaking to amend its rules consistent with Section 373.4131, F.S. Section 373.4131, F.S. became effective on July 1, 2012, and requires the Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) in coordination with the five water management districts (“WMDs”) to develop statewide environmental resource permitting (“ERP”) rules. These rules are to rely primarily upon existing rules of the DEP and WMDs, but may be revised as necessary to achieve a more consistent, effective and streamlined approach in the state’s ERP program.
To implement 373.4131(1), F.S., DEP has initiated rulemaking to revise Chapter 62-330, F.A.C. As part of its rulemaking, DEP intends to incorporate by reference documents to be known collectively as an applicant’s handbook. Two volumes of the applicant’s handbook will apply in each WMD: (1) one volume that will include general and environmental procedures and forms that will apply statewide (Volume I) and (2) a second volume specific to, and adopted by, the WMD that will include, among other things, basin specific rules within the WMD (Volume II). These volumes will replace the SJRWMD’s existing handbooks.
Section 62-330.301 as proposed by DEP will require applicants to show that a regulated activity complies with any applicable special basin or geographic criteria established in the rules of the WMD where a regulated activity is proposed. Within SJRWMD, applicants for an environmental resource permit must, therefore, show that their proposed activity complies with Chapter 40C-41 and applicable sections of Volume I and SJRWMD’s Volume II. The purposes of the proposed rule amendments to Chapter 40C-41 are to: (1) delete or update references to rule chapters 40C-4, 40C-40, 40C-42 and 40C-400 and to sections of SJRWMD’s existing handbooks, that will be superseded by Chapter 62-330 and by Volume I and SJRWMD’s Volume II; and (2) make any other necessary changes to reflect adoption of statewide ERP rules. None of the proposed amendments are designed to change the substantive requirements of SJRWMD’s special basin criteria.