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To receive public comments on draft total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for impaired water segments in the Pensacola Bay and Perdido Bay basins, to be adopted in Rule 62-304.330 and 62-304.335, F.A.C., respectively. The TMDLs to be presented at the public workshop are fecal coliform TMDLs for Escambia River (WBID 10F), Texar Bayou (WBID 738), Carpenter Creek (WBID 676), Blackwater River (WBID 24AB), East Bay River (WBID 701A), Yellow River (WBID 30), and Turkey Creek (WBID 117) in the Pensacola Bay basin, and Brushy Creek (WBID 4) in the Perdido Bay basin. Draft TMDL documents for these impaired waters will be placed on the Department’s TMDL website (http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/) by Friday, June 8, 2012 and will be provided upon request to interested parties by mail or via email distribution. The Department will accept written comments on the draft TMDLs through July 9, 2012. Written comments on these TMDLs should be directed to: Jan Mandrup-Poulsen, Environmental Administrator, Watershed Evaluation and TMDL Section, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Mail Station 3555, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400, or via email at: jan.mandrup-poulsen@dep.state.fl.us. These rulemakings have been assigned OGC case numbers 12-1171 and 12-1172.