Senate Bill 1424e1

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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to sewage treatment facility

  3         discharges; prohibiting new discharges, or

  4         increased pollutant loadings from existing

  5         sewage treatment facilities into coastal waters

  6         within Pasco County or waters tributary

  7         thereto; requiring elimination of existing

  8         discharges into coastal waters within Pasco

  9         County or waters tributary thereto; authorizing

10         the Department of Environmental Protection to

11         grant exceptions under certain circumstances;

12         providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Elimination of sewage treatment facility

17  discharges into coastal waters within Pasco County.--

18         (1)  No new discharges, or increased pollutant loadings

19  from existing sewage treatment facilities into the coastal

20  waters of the state within Pasco County, which include, but

21  are not limited to, Anclote Anchorage, Sandy Bay, Cross Bayou,

22  Millers Bayou, Boggy Bay, Hope Bayou, Lighter Bayou, or

23  Fillman Bayou, or into waters tributary thereto, are permitted

24  except as provided in subsection (3).

25         (2)  All existing sewage treatment facility discharges

26  into the coastal waters of the state within Pasco County or

27  into waters tributary thereto, as described in subsection (1),

28  must be eliminated before July 1, 2004, except as provided in

29  subsection (3).

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    CS for SB 1424                           First Engrossed (ntc)



  1         (3)  The Department of Environmental Protection may

  2  grant an exception to subsections (1) or (2) only in the

  3  following circumstances:

  4         (a)  The applicant conclusively demonstrates that no

  5  other practical alternative exists, the discharge will receive

  6  advanced waste treatment as defined in s. 403.086(4), or a

  7  higher level of treatment, and the applicant conclusively

  8  demonstrates that the proposed discharge will not result in a

  9  violation of water quality standards; or

10         (b)  The applicant's discharge is a limited wet weather

11  surface water discharge serving as a backup to a reuse system

12  pursuant to s. 403.086(7)(a) and will not cause a violation of

13  state water quality standards and is subject to the

14  requirements of department rules.

15         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

16  law.

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