General Permit to Counties and Municipalities to Pave Existing County or Municipally Owned and Maintained Roads, including the Repair and Replacement of Bridges that are Part of the Roadway

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Departmental

RULE NO: RULE TITLE
62-341.448: General Permit to Counties and Municipalities to Pave Existing County or Municipally Owned and Maintained Roads, including the Repair and Replacement of Bridges that are Part of the Roadway

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 32 No. 2, January 13, 2006 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.

The changes are made in response to comments received from the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee. The proposed rule has changed so that when it is adopted it will read:

62-341.448 General Permit to Counties and Municipalities to Pave Existing County or Municipally Owned and Maintained Roads, including the Repair and Replacement of Bridges that are Part of the Roadway.

A general permit is hereby granted to counties and municipalities to pave existing county or municipally owned and maintained roads that lack a permanent pavement surface, such as concrete or asphalt. This includes: the repair and stabilization of such roads in preparation of paving, the repair or replacement of bridges and culverts that are part of the roadway, construction or alteration of associated stormwater management systems, and other work reasonably necessary to pave the road, provided:

(1) through (2) No change.

(3) Activities conducted under this general permit must comply with the general conditions for general permits contained in Rule 62-341.215 62-341.205, F.A.C., and all the specific conditions in paragraphs (a) through (k) below.

(a) No change.

(b) No debris from the removal of existing roadway, bridge, culvert, and other surface water management features shall be placed allowed to remain within wetlands or other surface waters.

(c) through (i) No change.

(j) Applicants are advised that drawings, any submitted construction plans, and supporting calculations must be signed, sealed, and dated by an appropriate registered professional in accordance with Sections 373.117 and 403.0877, F.S., and Chapters 471, 472, 481, or 492, F.S., when the design of the system requires the services of such registered professional. For purposes of this rule, an “appropriate registered professional” means a professional registered in Florida with the necessary expertise in the fields of hydrology, drainage, flood control, erosion and sediment control, and stormwater pollution control to design and certify stormwater management systems. Examples of appropriate registered professionals are professional engineers licensed under Chapter 471, F.S., professional landscape architects licensed under Chapter 481, F.S., professional surveyors and mappers licensed under Chapter 472, F.S., and professional geologists licensed under Chapter 492, F.S.

(k) No change.

(4) No change.

(5) Notices to use this general permit shall be submitted to the water management district established under Section 373.069, F.S., having regulatory jurisdiction over the geographic area in which the proposed project will be located using the form for noticing general permits for the applicable water management district as adopted in subsections 40B-1.901(13), 40C-4.900(1), Rule 40D-1.659, or 40E-1.659, F.A.C. In addition to the information required on those forms, this notice must also include the materials required in paragraphs (5)(a) or (b), below.

(a) No change.

1. through 3. No change.

4. A copy of a Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance rate map or a map signed and sealed by an appropriate registered professional engineer registered in Florida that demonstrates that the road segments to be paved are not subject to overtopping by a one percent-chance storm event.

(b) For all other roads to be paved under this general permit:

1. through 5. No change.

6. If design of the project requires the services of an appropriate registered professional in accordance with Sections 373.117 and or 403.0877, F.S., and Chapter 471, 472, 481, or 492, F.S., all supporting drawings, materials, statements, construction plans, and calculations that are required to be signed, sealed, and dated by the registered professional.

(c) No change.

(7) renumbered (6) No change.