FL H1343

Department of Environmental Protection must adopt statewide environmental resource permitting rules for stormwater management systems in coordination with water management districts, governing construction, alteration, operation, maintenance, repair, abandonment, and removal of such systems.

Water management districts, with department oversight, must adopt rules for design and performance standards for stormwater quality and quantity, including standards that increase nutrient removal from stormwater discharges for new development and redevelopment projects; department must incorporate these by reference and amend the applicant's handbook by December 1, 2019.

Creates rebuttable presumption that stormwater management systems designed and constructed in accordance with adopted treatment requirements, best management practices, and valid permits or exemptions do not cause or contribute to violations of state water quality standards.

Expands general permit eligibility for stormwater management systems serving projects up to 10 acres (previously stated differently) with less than 2 acres of impervious surface, allowing self-certification by Florida registered professionals; adds prohibition on discharge of additional stormwater pollutants into impaired water bodies or water bodies with adopted total maximum daily load standards.

Effective date: July 1, 2019.