Drinking Water Use Support and Protection of Human Health, Drinking Water Use Support and Protection of Human Health

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

RULE NOS.:RULE TITLES:

62-303.380Drinking Water Use Support and Protection of Human Health

62-303.480Drinking Water Use Support and Protection of Human Health

NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL

Notice is hereby given that the above rule, as noticed in Vol. 39 No. 63, April 1, 2013 issue of the Florida Administrative Register has been withdrawn.

On April 27, 2012, the Department of Environmental Protection (department) published a notice of development of proposed rule in the Florida Administrative Register (FAR) to update the listing methodology for human health-based water quality criteria in Rules 62-303.380 and 62-303.480, F.A.C., used to determine whether a water body is impaired.  These revisions were proposed concurrently with revisions to the human health-based surface water quality criteria in Rule 62-302.530, F.A.C.  On April 23, 2013, the Department’s Environmental Regulation Commission (ERC) chose not to approve the subsequently proposed revisions, and instead continued the hearing, requesting that the department conduct additional analysis on the human health-based criteria before bringing the proposed revisions back to the ERC. The notice of proposed rulemaking published in the FAR on April 1, 2013 (Vol. 39, No. 63 issue) is legally still an active rule that may be returned to the ERC for approval.  Nevertheless, because of the lengthy delay associated with continuation of this rulemaking, the department has chosen to withdraw the initial notice of proposed rulemaking published on April 1, 2013, and concurrently publish a new notice of development of proposed rule and public workshops for new proposed revisions to the listing methodology for human health-based surface water quality criteria in Rules 62-303.380 and 62-303.480, F.A.C.