Summary
The proposed amendments to SFWMD’s Applicant’s Handbook Vol. II include: (1) removing all water quality volumetric criteria because these criteria will now be covered in Chapter 62-330, F.A.C., and FDEP’s ERP Applicant’s Handbook Vol. I General and Procedural (FDEP’s Applicant’s Handbook Vol. I), which applies statewide; (2) updating and clarifying SFWMD’s remaining criteria for various BMPs; (3) eliminating dry detention as a BMP due to its low ability to remove nutrients; (4) updating and conforming dam safety criteria with FDEP’s changes to its dam safety rules; (5) updating Appendix B “Above Ground Impoundments” to add design criteria for above ground facilities that could impound water; (6) removing Appendix C, which contains isohyetal maps, and adding a hyperlink to those maps in Section 5.6.2(a); (7) updating Appendix D, which will now be Appendix C, to remove the map of “SFWMD Basins for Cumulative Impact Assessments & Mitigation Bank Service Areas” because it is duplicative of the map contained in FDEP’s Applicant’s Handbook Vol. I, and replacing it with criteria for “Exfiltration System Trench Design”; (8) updating Appendix E, which will now be Appendix D, to remove “Procedure for Environmental Resource Permit Water Quality Evaluations for Applications Involving Discharges to Outstanding Florida Waters and Water Bodies that Do Not Meet State Water Quality Standards” because this criteria will be included in FDEP’s Applicant’s Handbook Vol. I, and replacing it with criteria for “Soil Storage Values”; (9) adding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Atlas 14 Volume 9 Version 2.0 and incorporating it by reference in Rule 40E-4.091, F.A.C., and (10) making other miscellaneous minor edits, clarifications, and conforming changes throughout. The SFWMD also proposes to update its incorporation of Chapter 62-302, F.A.C. (effective 11/17/2016) and Chapter 62-550, F.A.C. (effective 8/5/2016) to the current rules.
The proposed amendments to the “Environmental Resource Permit Applicant’s Handbook Volume II for Use Within the Geographic Limits of the South Florida Water Management District" are available online at: https://www.sfwmd.gov/doing-business-with-us/rules.