Senate Bill sb1794

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1794

    By Senator Baker





    20-1207-06                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Wekiva Onsite Disposal

  3         System Compliance Grant Program; creating the

  4         program in the Department of Health; providing

  5         purposes; authorizing certain property owners

  6         in certain areas of the Wekiva basin to apply

  7         for grants for certain purposes; providing

  8         grant limitations; providing for annual

  9         adjustments of the amount of the grants;

10         providing for the grant as a rebate of costs

11         incurred; requiring documentation of costs;

12         requiring the department to adopt rules to

13         administer the grant program; providing an

14         appropriation; providing an effective date.

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

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18         Section 1.  Wekiva Onsite Disposal System Compliance

19  Grant Program.--

20         (1)  The Wekiva Onsite Disposal System Compliance Grant

21  Program is established in the Department of Health, to be

22  administered by the department. The purpose of the program is

23  to provide grants to low-income property owners in the Wekiva

24  Study Area or the Wekiva River Protection Area using onsite

25  disposal systems to assist the property owner in complying

26  with rules for onsite disposal systems developed by the

27  Department of Health, the Department of Environmental

28  Protection, or the St. Johns River Water Management District

29  to enforce compliance with onsite disposal system standards.

30         (2)  Any property owner in the Wekiva Study Area or the

31  Wekiva River Protection Area having an income less than or

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1794
    20-1207-06                                              See HB




 1  equal to 200 percent of the federal poverty level who is

 2  required by rule of the Department of Health, the Department

 3  of Environmental Protection, or the St. Johns River Water

 4  Management District to construct, reconstruct, alter, repair,

 5  or modify any new or existing onsite disposal system on such

 6  property may apply to the Department of Health for a grant to

 7  assist the owner with the cost of compliance.

 8         (3)  The amount of the grant is limited to $10,000 per

 9  property and shall be increased each calendar year by the

10  change in the annual average of the "materials and components

11  for construction" series of the producer price index, as

12  calculated and published by the United States Department of

13  Labor, Bureau of Statistics, from the previous calendar year.

14         (4)  The grant shall be in the form of a rebate to the

15  property owner for costs incurred in complying with

16  requirements for onsite disposal systems. The property owner

17  shall provide to the Department of Health in the application

18  for a grant documentation of costs incurred in complying with

19  requirements for such systems.

20         (5)  The Department of Health shall adopt rules

21  providing forms, procedures, and requirements for applying for

22  and disbursing grants under this section and for documenting

23  compliance costs incurred.

24         Section 2.  The sum of $    is appropriated from the

25  General Revenue Fund to the Department of Health, of which

26  $    is to the department to administer the Wekiva Onsite

27  Disposal System Compliance Grant Program and $     is to

28  provide grants to applicants under the program.

29         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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