Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0762

5E Relating to the environment; modifying provisions for cost sharing contracts
for erosion control and water management; creating the "Clean Water Legacy Act";
providing for the protection, restoration and preservation of the quality of
surface waters in the state to conform to certain federal requirements; defining
certain terms; specifying certain coordination and cooperation requirements of
public agencies responsible for local water management, conservation, land use
and management and development plans; specifying certain implementation goals
and policies; requiring the pollution control agency (PCA) to set priorities for
identifying impaired waters and the clean water council to recommend priorities
for scheduling and preparing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) and priorities
for restoration of impaired waters, specifying certain consideration
requirements; specifying certain administrative duties of the PCA relating to
development and approval of TMDLs; requiring the PCA to comply with submittal
requirements such as notice and content information; establishing a clean water
council for administration and implementation advice purposes, specifying
certain membership requirements and duties, requiring the governor in making
appointments to attempt to provide for geographic balance and subjecting the
appointments to senate confirmation, requiring council biennial reports to the
legislature; providing for public and stakeholder participation in the
identification and restoration of impaired waters; requiring council use of
certain scientific expertise and development of strategies to inform, educate
and encourage participation; creating the clean water legacy account in the
environmental fund and specifying certain authorized uses; instructing the PCA
to regulate nutrient loading in impaired water when necessary, modifying project
financial assistance eligibility requirements; expanding total maximum daily
load grants to stormwater projects; requiring and providing for the public
facilities authority to establish a clean water legacy capital improvement fund
for grants to governmental units for the capital costs of wastewater treatment
facility projects to reduce the discharge of total phosphorus, specifying
certain project eligibility requirements, eligible costs and grant amounts and
priorities, authorizing the authority to charge grant recipients a fee for
administrative costs, limit; requiring the authority to establish a small
community wastewater treatment account for loans to governmental units for
projects to replace noncomplying individual sewage treatment systems (ISTSs)
with community wastewater treatment systems meeting ISTS requirements,
specifying certain project proposal and loan application and award requirements,
authorizing deferment of local special assessments to repay the loans; delaying
the effective date of a PCA adopted rule changing the limits on phosphorus
discharges, requiring the PCA to report to the legislature by a certain day
before new rule is in effect
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