Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1160
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/26/2014           .                                
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       (Altman) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 381.0065, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         381.0065 Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems;
    8  regulation.—
    9         (6) LAND APPLICATION OF SEPTAGE PROHIBITED.—
   10         (a) Effective January 1, 2017 2016, the land application of
   11  septage from onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems is
   12  prohibited.
   13         (b) The Department of Environmental Protection, in
   14  consultation with the Department of Health, the Department of
   15  Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Department of Economic
   16  Opportunity, the University of Florida Institute of Food and
   17  Agricultural Sciences, local governments, and other
   18  stakeholders, shall examine and report on the potential options
   19  for safely and appropriately disposing of or reusing septage and
   20  the contents of portable toilets, grease interceptors, and
   21  holding tanks, including, but not limited to:
   22         1. An inventory of domestic wastewater utilities and solid
   23  waste management facilities that are known to receive and treat
   24  septage or the contents of portable toilets, grease
   25  interceptors, and holding tanks.
   26         2. An inventory of permitted septage land application
   27  sites.
   28         3. An analysis of the nutrient concentrations of septage.
   29         4. An analysis of the technical limitations for domestic
   30  wastewater utilities and solid waste management facilities to
   31  receive and treat septage or the contents of portable toilets,
   32  grease interceptors, and holding tanks.
   33         5. An analysis of the sufficiency of chapter 64E-6, Florida
   34  Administrative Code, in managing nutrient loading from land
   35  application sites, with emphasis on high recharge areas of the
   36  aquifer and other sensitive surface waters or groundwaters.
   37         6. An analysis of compliance rates with chapter 64E-6,
   38  Florida Administrative Code, and the sufficiency of operator
   39  oversight to ensure compliance.
   40         7. An analysis of the sufficiency of penalties for
   41  noncompliance.
   42         8. The transfer of regulatory authority over the land
   43  application of septage or the contents of portable toilets,
   44  grease interceptors, and holding tanks from the Department of
   45  Health to the Department of Environmental Protection, including
   46  the environmental benefits of applying the nutrient management
   47  plan requirements, setbacks, site-monitoring requirements, and
   48  provisions of chapter 62-640, Florida Administrative Code, to
   49  the land application of septage.
   50         (c) The Department of Environmental Protection shall submit
   51  a report of its findings and recommendations, pursuant to
   52  paragraph (b), to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and
   53  the Speaker of the House of Representatives by February 1, 2015.
   54         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.
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   56  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   57  And the title is amended as follows:
   58         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   59  and insert:
   60                        A bill to be entitled                      
   61         An act relating to onsite sewage treatment and
   62         disposal systems; amending s. 381.0065, F.S.; delaying
   63         the effective date of the prohibition against the land
   64         application of septage from onsite sewage treatment
   65         and disposal systems; Providing for a study on
   66         potential options for safely and appropriately
   67         disposing or reusing septage; providing an effective
   68         date.