The Department proposes to amend the fee schedule in Rules 62-4.050 and 62-4.053, F.A.C., to comply with the requirements of Chapter 2008-150, Laws of Florida, as codified in Sections 373.109, 403.087, and 403.861, F.S., which established new fees and minimum fee requirements for environmental resource and wetland resource permit programs under Part IV of Chapter 373, F.S., and the drinking water and mangrove programs under Chapter 403, F.S. The fee changes under Part IV of Chapter 373, F.S., include a new $250 minimum fee for noticed general permits and individual permits; a new $100 minimum fee to verify qualification for an exemption; and a new $100 minimum fee to conduct an informal wetland boundary determination. For the drinking water program, the rule includes a new minimum annual operation license fee of $50 for each public water system, automatically increases the minimum fees for drinking water construction permits to $500, and establishes the minimum permit fee for a drinking water distribution system permit, including a minimum fee for a general permit at $500. These new fees and the minimum fees automatically went into effect on July 1, 2008. The proposed rules also include an annual operation license fee schedule for public water systems and increases to the other fees charged by the Department under Part IV of Chapter 373, F.S., and the drinking water program to, at a minimum, reflect changes in the rate of inflation since the time each fee was established or most recently revised. Also, as required by the statute, the rule provides for the Department to adjust all of the fees every five years based on changes in the consumer price index (CPI), and identifies the inflation index used for making the fee adjustments. The inflation index used for making all fee adjustments is the price paid by all urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services; specifically, the CPI figures for the “CPI-U, U.S. City Average, All Items” established for the previous five years by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (www.bls.gov/cpi/), computed as provided in the BLS publication “Handbook of Methods,” Chapter 17 (www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch17.pdf).