The Department of Environmental Protection hereby gives notice:
The Department issued a variance on October 23, 2012, to LTA Distributors LLC for the New Life Tires and Auto Repair facility in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The Petition for Variance was filed on August 23, 2012, and notice of receipt of the petition was published in the F.A.W. on September 21, 2012. The variance granted relief from Rule 62-711.500(3)(a), F.A.C., which requires submittal of proof of financial assurance for closing a waste tire site at a waste tire processing facility as part of the permit application. The Petitioner demonstrated that meeting this requirement for this facility that stores no more than 4,000 used tires at any one time would cause a substantial hardship because the transactional costs of the financial assurance would exceed the value of the mechanism. The Petitioner also demonstrated that the granting of the variance would not create a significant threat to public health or the environment and would not be likely to result in the failure to close the waste tire site as required by Chapter 62-711, F.A.C., and Section 403.717, F.S.
A copy of the Order or additional information may be obtained by contacting:
Richard Tedder, Program Administrator, Department of Environmental Protection, Solid Waste Section, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400, email: richard.tedder@dep.state.fl.us, (850)245-8735.