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“The Department will request approval for adoption on its proposed revisions to Chapter 62-302 (Surface Water Quality Standards), which establish numeric nutrient criteria for total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and chlorophyll a for the following Panhandle estuaries: Perdido Bay, Pensacola Bay (including Escambia Bay), Choctawhatchee Bay, St. Andrew Bay, St. Joseph Bay, and Apalachicola Bay. The Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration will also provide a briefing on the Triennial Review of Florida’s water quality standards, which includes revisions to the human health-based water quality criteria and the Dissolved Oxygen criteria.”