Florida Senate - 2015                              CS for SB 648
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation;
       and Senator Evers
       
       
       
       
       592-03276A-15                                          2015648c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the land application of septage;
    3         amending s. 381.0065, F.S.; removing the future
    4         prohibition against the land application of septage
    5         from onsite treatment and disposal systems; requiring
    6         land application to be subject to certain
    7         requirements; requiring the Department of Health to
    8         adopt rules; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 381.0065, Florida
   13  Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         381.0065 Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems;
   15  regulation.—
   16         (6) LAND APPLICATION OF SEPTAGE PROHIBITED.—Effective
   17  January 1, 2016, The land application of septage from onsite
   18  sewage treatment and disposal systems is subject to the
   19  following requirements in addition to any permit requirements:
   20  is prohibited.
   21         (a) Monthly inspections by the department;
   22         (b) Metered receiving at treatment facilities;
   23         (c) Testing with electronic pH meters rather than paper
   24  strips;
   25         (d) Stabilized septage sampling;
   26         (e) Annual tracking of nutrient loading based on septage
   27  sampling; and
   28         (f) Annual soil sampling of active application sites.
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   30  The department shall adopt rules to implement this subsection.
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.