FL S0326

Requires contracts between residential recycling collectors or recovered materials processing facilities and local governments to include strategies for reducing contaminated recyclable material, procedures for rejecting contaminated loads, remedies for contamination, education and enforcement measures, and community-specific definitions of contamination.

Prohibits recycling collectors and processing facilities from being required to collect or process contaminated recyclable material after contract execution unless the contract complies with the new requirements, effective for contracts executed or renewed after October 1, 2020.

Defines "residential recycling collector" as a for-profit business entity collecting and transporting residential recyclable material on behalf of a county or municipality, and clarifies that contaminated material refers only to recyclables mixed with solid waste or nonhazardous material, not hazardous contamination.

Prohibits local governments from requiring further department verification for certain exempt projects and revises dock and pier replacement exemptions to allow replacements within 5 feet of original location and no larger than existing structures, with no additional adverse impacts to aquatic resources.

Makes various technical corrections to environmental permitting language, including replacing phrases like "which is" with "that" and "prior to" with "before" throughout section 403.813, effective July 1, 2020.