Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1058
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Burgess)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 40 - 158
    4  and insert:
    5         (3)By July 1, 2022, Each county is encouraged to establish
    6  an evaluation and rehabilitation program for sanitary sewer
    7  laterals on residential and commercial properties within the
    8  county’s jurisdiction to identify and reduce extraneous flow
    9  from leaking sanitary sewer laterals. At a minimum, the program
   10  may do all of the following:
   11         (a) Establish a system to identify defective, damaged, or
   12  deteriorated sanitary sewer laterals on residential and
   13  commercial properties within the jurisdiction of the county. If
   14  a county identifies a defective, damaged, or deteriorated
   15  sanitary sewer lateral and initiates a program to eliminate
   16  extraneous flow, the county:
   17         1.Shall notify the property owner of the issue by
   18  certified mail, return receipt requested. The notice must
   19  specify that within 14 days after receiving the notice, the
   20  county intends to access the owner’s property to address the
   21  defective, damaged, or deteriorated sanitary sewer lateral. The
   22  notice must identify the issue, inform the property owner that
   23  he or she will be indemnified and held harmless in the repair
   24  process, and provide a proposed timeline and plan for the
   25  duration of the project, including start and completion dates.
   26         2.Is responsible for any repair work done on the private
   27  property. If any disruption of the property is necessary to
   28  access the sanitary sewer lateral, the county shall ensure that
   29  the property is restored to at least its pre-work conditions
   30  after the repair is complete. Any repair work done to a sanitary
   31  sewer lateral must meet all of the following requirements:
   32         a.Provide one continuous monolithic pipe system. The
   33  connections for the structure, mainline, and cleanout must be
   34  installed and integrated into the continuous monolithic pipe
   35  system by a Florida-licensed plumber; and
   36         b.Be inspected using a lateral launch or similar CCTV
   37  camera system conducted by a Pipeline Assessment Certification
   38  Program (PACP) and Lateral Assessment and Certification Program
   39  (LACP)-certified camera operator. The contractor must produce
   40  and provide the county with a PACP- and LACP-certified report
   41  describing the conditions of the continuous monolithic pipe
   42  system and the respective connections to the main sewer pipe and
   43  the structure.
   44         (b) Consider economical methods for the county a property
   45  owner to repair or replace a defective, damaged, or deteriorated
   46  sanitary sewer lateral.
   47         (c) Establish and maintain a publicly accessible database
   48  to store information concerning properties where a defective,
   49  damaged, or deteriorated sanitary sewer lateral has been
   50  identified. For each property, the database must include, but is
   51  not limited to, the address of the property, the names of any
   52  persons the county notified concerning the faulty sanitary sewer
   53  lateral, and the date and method of such notification.
   54         (d)Use state or local funds allocated for the purpose of
   55  environmental preservation or the protection of water quality.
   56         Section 2. Section 166.0481, Florida Statutes, is amended
   57  to read:
   58         166.0481 Municipal sanitary sewer lateral inspections
   59  inspection programs for municipalities.—
   60         (1) As used in this section, the term:
   61         (a) “Sanitary sewer lateral” means a privately owned
   62  pipeline connecting a property to the main sewer line which is
   63  maintained and repaired by the property owner.
   64         (b)“Continuous monolithic pipe system” means a pipe system
   65  with no joints or seams anywhere, including all points where it
   66  connects to the structure, the mainline, and the cleanout.
   67         (2) A municipality may access any sanitary sewer lateral
   68  within its jurisdiction to investigate, clean, repair,
   69  recondition, or replace the sanitary sewer lateral.
   70         (3)By July 1, 2022, Each municipality is encouraged to
   71  establish an evaluation and rehabilitation program for sanitary
   72  sewer laterals on residential and commercial properties within
   73  the municipality’s jurisdiction to identify and reduce
   74  extraneous flow from leaking sanitary sewer laterals. At a
   75  minimum, the program may do all of the following:
   76         (a) Establish a system to identify defective, damaged, or
   77  deteriorated sanitary sewer laterals on residential and
   78  commercial properties within the jurisdiction of the
   79  municipality. If a municipality identifies such a defective,
   80  damaged, or deteriorated sanitary sewer lateral and initiates a
   81  program to eliminate extraneous flow, the municipality:
   82         1.Shall notify the property owner of the issue by
   83  certified mail, return receipt requested. The notice must
   84  specify that within 14 days after receiving the notice, the
   85  municipality intends to access the owner’s property to address
   86  the defective, damaged, or deteriorated sanitary sewer lateral.
   87  The notice must identify the issue, inform the property owner
   88  that he or she will be indemnified and held harmless in the
   89  repair process, and provide a proposed timeline and plan for the
   90  duration of the project, including start and completion dates.
   91         2.Is responsible for any repair work done on the private
   92  property. If any disruption of the property is necessary to
   93  access the sanitary sewer lateral, the municipality must ensure
   94  that the property is restored to at least its pre-work
   95  conditions after the repair is complete. Any repair work done to
   96  a sanitary sewer lateral must meet all of the following
   97  requirements:
   98         a.Provide one continuous monolithic pipe system. The
   99  connections for the structure, mainline, and cleanout must be
  100  installed and integrated into the continuous monolithic pipe
  101  system by a Florida-licensed plumber; and
  102         b.Be inspected using a lateral launch or similar CCTV
  103  camera system and conducted by a Pipeline Assessment
  104  Certification Program (PACP) and Lateral Assessment and
  105  Certification Program (LACP)-certified camera operator. The
  106  contractor must produce and provide the county with a PACP- and
  107  LACP-certified report stating the conditions of the continuous
  108  monolithic pipe system and the respective connections to the
  109  main sewer pipe and the structure.
  110         (b) Consider economical methods for the municipality a
  111  property owner to repair or replace a defective, damaged, or
  112  deteriorated sanitary sewer lateral.
  113         (c) Establish and maintain a publicly accessible database
  114  to store information concerning properties where a defective,
  115  damaged, or deteriorated sanitary sewer lateral has been
  116  identified. For each property, the database must include, but is
  117  not limited to, the address of the property, the names of any
  118  persons the municipality notified concerning the faulty sanitary
  119  sewer lateral, and the date and method of such notification.
  120         (d)Use state or local funds allocated for the purpose of
  121  environmental preservation or the protection of water quality.
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  124  And the title is amended as follows:
  125         Delete lines 21 - 22
  126  and insert:
  127         environmental preservation or the protection of water
  128         quality; providing an effective date.