This rule is being amended to update design standards incorporated by reference, clarify permitting criteria for highway landscape projects, and clarify highway beautification projects that are eligible for grant awards.

 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

RULE NOS.:RULE TITLES:

14-40.003Highway Landscape Projects

14-40.020Grant Application Process

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: This rule is being amended to update design standards incorporated by reference, clarify permitting criteria for highway landscape projects, and clarify highway beautification projects that are eligible for grant awards.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: The requirements for altering, installing, or removing vegetation within Department right of way. Defining highway beautification projects that are eligible for grant awards.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 334.044(2), 337.2505, 337.405, 339.2405 FS.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 334.044(26), 335.167, 337.2505, 337.405, 339.24, 339.2405, 479.106 FS.

IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE NOTICED IN THE NEXT AVAILABLE FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE REGISTER.

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Susan Schwartz, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Transportation, 605 Suwannee Street, MS 58, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0458, [phone], [e-mail]

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE CONTACT PERSON LISTED ABOVE.