RULE NO.: RULE TITLE:
62-621.500: Permits
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Department is initiating rulemaking to revise subsection 62-621.500(1), F.A.C., the existing Generic Permit for Discharges from Fresh Citrus Fruit Packinghouses to Percolation Ponds, providing permit requirements that meet a level of protection commensurate with potential environmental impacts, based on long-term monitoring data from existing citrus packinghouse facilities under individual permits. The Department proposes to accomplish this by standardizing ground water monitoring, reducing the number of parameters and frequency of effluent and ground water sampling and development of standardized Best Management Practices (BMPs) that can be implemented at all facilities covered under the generic permit.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Department is developing amendments to the Generic Permit for Discharges from Fresh Citrus Fruit Packinghouses to Percolation Ponds under Rule 62-621.500, F.A.C.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 403.061, 403.087, 403.088, 403.0885, 403.814 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 403.061, 403.087, 403.088, 403.0877, 403.814 FS.
A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: March 14, 2012, 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: DEP Tallahassee, Bob Martinez Center, 6th Floor, Room 609, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32399
Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 5 days before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Shirley Shields, Department of Environmental Protection, MS 3545, 2600 Blair Stone Rd., Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400, (850)245-8589, shirley.shields@dep.state.fl.us. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Allen Hubbard, Department of Environmental Protection, MS 3545, 2600 Blair Stone Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400, (850)245-8589, allen.hubbard@dep.state.fl.us. Copies of the agenda and preliminary drafts will be available seven days before the workshop by contacting Allen Hubbard, or visiting http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/rules_dr.htm

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE CONTACT PERSON LISTED ABOVE.