Title: Wastewater Grants

Summary: Authorizes DEP to provide grants for certain projects to restore specified impaired water bodies & water segments.

Full Text:
An act relating to wastewater grants; amending s. 403.0673, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to provide grants for certain projects to restore specified impaired water bodies and water segments; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 403.0673, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 403.0673 Wastewater grant program.-A wastewater grant program is established within the Department of Environmental Protection. (1) Subject to the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, the department may provide grants for the following projects wit hin a basin management action plan, an alternative restoration plan adopted by final order, or a rural area of opportunity under s. 288.0656 or intended to restore a water body or water body segment listed as impaired pursuant to s. 403.067 which will indi vidually or collectively reduce excess nutrient pollution: (a) Projects to retrofit onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to upgrade such systems to enhanced nutrient reducing onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems. HB 2023 (b) Projects to constru ct, upgrade, or expand facilities to provide advanced waste treatment, as defined in s. 403.086(4). (c) Projects to connect onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to central sewer facilities. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.