The Department is initiating rulemaking to establish Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for certain surface waters in the basins listed above where those waters previously have been identified as impaired for specific pollutants and included on the ...

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

RULE NOS.:RULE TITLES:

62-304.305Ochlockonee Basin TMDLs

62-304.400Upper Suwannee Basin TMDLs

62-304.405Lower Suwannee River Basin TMDLs

62-304.415Lower St. Johns River Basin TMDLs

62-304.500Ocklawaha River Basin TMDLs

62-304.505Middle St. Johns River Basin TMDLS.

62-304.510Upper St. Johns River TMDLS.

62-304.515Kissimmee River Basin TMDLs

62-304.520Indian River Lagoon Basin TMDLs

62-304.640Withlacoochee Basin TMDLs

62-304.645Springs Coast Basin TMDLs

62-304.705St. Lucie Basin TMDLs

62-304.710Loxahatchee Basin TMDLs

62-304.800Caloosahatchee River Basin TMDLs.

62-304.805Charlotte Harbor Basin TMDLs

62-304.810Everglades West Coast Basin TMDLs

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Department is initiating rulemaking to establish Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for certain surface waters in the basins listed above where those waters previously have been identified as impaired for specific pollutants and included on the Department’s verified list of impaired waters. Pursuant to Section 403.067(6), F.S., TMDLs must be adopted in rule by the Secretary of the Department. Chapter 62-304, F.A.C., was established as the rule chapter within which rules adopting TMDLs shall reside. Furthermore, in accordance with paragraph 62-302.531(2)(a), F.A.C., any of these rules which establish nutrient TMDLs, if adopted, are intended to constitute site specific numeric interpretations of the narrative nutrient criterion set forth in paragraph 62-302.530(47)(b), F.A.C. that will supersede the otherwise applicable numeric nutrient criteria in rule 62-302.531 for the particular surface water segment.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: TMDLs and their allocations will be established for the pollutants identified in the Department’s verified list of impaired waters as causing the impairment for certain impaired waters in the above listed basins.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 403.061, 403.067 FS.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 403.061, 403.062, 403.067 FS.

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Xueqing Gao, Administrator, Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration, Watershed Evaluation and TMDL Section, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Mail Station #3555, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400, Telephone: [phone]

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.