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FL Stat § 403.7234 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.7234 - Small quantity generator notification and verification program.

403.7234 Small quantity generator notification and verification program.—(1) Each county shall notify, according to guidelines established under s. 403.7226, each small quantity generator identified on its assessment roll, during the first year of the local hazardous waste management assessment. Annually thereafter, the county shall notify each small quantity generator not notified previously. The notification of small quantity generators shall:(a) Detail the legal responsibilities of the small quantity generator with regard to proper waste management practices, including penalties for noncompliance.(b) Include a list of hazardous waste management alternatives and waste reduction opportunities which are available to the small quantity generator.(2) Alternatively, a county may perform this notification either through the mail or during the annual business licensing of new or existing facilities that potentially may generate hazardous waste.(3) Counties shall collect information on the types, amounts, and management of waste generated by small quantity generators according to guidelines established under s. 403.7226.(4) Within 30 days of receipt of a notification, which includes a survey form, a small quantity generator shall disclose its management practices and the types and quantities of waste to the county government. Annually, each county shall verify the management practices of at least 20 percent of its small quantity generators. The procedure for verification used by the county shall be developed as part of the guidance established by the department under s. 403.7226. The department may also regulate the waste management practices of small quantity generators in order to ensure proper management of hazardous waste in a manner consistent with federal requirements, except as provided under s. 403.804(2).(5) Any small quantity generator who does not comply with the requirements of subsection (4) and who has received a notification and survey in person or through one certified letter from the county is subject to a fine of between $75 and $150 per day for a maximum of 100 days. The county may collect such fines and deposit them in its general revenue fund. Fines collected by the county shall be used to carry out the notification and verification procedure established in this section. If there are excess funds after the notification and verification procedures have been completed, such funds shall be used for hazardous and solid waste management purposes only.History.—s. 29, ch. 83-310; s. 35, ch. 84-338; s. 37, ch. 86-186; s. 12, ch. 87-374; s. 42, ch. 93-207; s. 21, ch. 2020-158.
FL Stat § 403.7236 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.7236 - Local government information to be sent to the department.

403.7236 Local government information to be sent to the department.—Each county shall transmit the following information to the department, according to guidelines established under s. 403.7226:(1) A summary of the information gathered during its local hazardous waste management assessment;(2) Information gathered from each small quantity generator not notified or verified previously; and(3) Onsite information gathered from each existing small quantity generator verification.History.—s. 30, ch. 83-310; s. 4, ch. 85-269; s. 43, ch. 93-207.
FL Stat § 403.7238 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.7238 - Expanded local hazardous waste management programs.

403.7238 Expanded local hazardous waste management programs.—(1) The Legislature recognizes the need for increased participation by local governments in ensuring that small quantity generators are properly managing their hazardous waste and that waste reduction opportunities are promoted and realized. In order to promote this participation, the department shall establish a grant program on a competitive basis for counties that meet the following criteria:(a) The county has established a funding mechanism to support its local hazardous waste management assessments and the expanded local hazardous waste management program.(b) The county has adopted a local ordinance approved by the department that addresses the compliance with and enforcement of the federal and state hazardous waste regulations for small quantity generators.(c) The county has established a plan that is designed to reduce the generation of hazardous waste and hazardous emissions from local governmental agencies and departments.(d) The county certifies that it will continue to implement its expanded local hazardous waste management assessment program after the grant assistance ceases.(2) Grants are authorized to cover startup costs incurred to establish the expanded local hazardous waste management program, including training for personnel, and materials and equipment necessary for education, compliance activities, and program administration. The total costs of administration shall not exceed 10 percent of the county’s grant award.(3) The maximum amount of a grant for a county establishing an expanded local hazardous waste management program shall be $50,000.History.—s. 44, ch. 93-207; s. 3, ch. 97-98.
FL Stat § 403.7255 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.7255 - Placement of signs.

403.7255 Placement of signs.—(1) Signs must be placed by the owner or operator at any site in the state which is listed or proposed for listing on the Superfund Site List of the United States Environmental Protection Agency or any site identified by the department as a site contaminated by hazardous waste where there is a risk of exposure to the public. This section does not apply to sites reported under ss. 376.3071 and 376.3072. The department shall establish requirements and procedures for the placement of signs, and may do so in rules, permits, orders, or other authorizations. The authorization shall establish the appropriate size for such signs, which size shall be no smaller than 2 feet by 2 feet, and shall provide in clearly legible print appropriate warning language for the waste or other materials at the site and a telephone number that may be called for further information.(2) Violations of this act are punishable as provided in s. 403.161(4).(3) The provisions of this act are independent of and cumulative to any other requirements and remedies in this chapter or chapter 376, or any rules promulgated thereunder.History.—ss. 2, 3, 4, ch. 90-15; s. 412, ch. 94-356; s. 24, ch. 2007-184; s. 34, ch. 2020-158.
FL Stat § 403.726 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.726 - Abatement of imminent hazard caused by hazardous substance.

403.726 Abatement of imminent hazard caused by hazardous substance.—(1) The Legislature finds that hazardous waste which has been improperly generated, transported, disposed of, stored, or treated may pose an imminent hazard to the public health, safety, and welfare and the environment.(2) The department shall take any action necessary pursuant to s. 403.121 or s. 403.131 to abate or substantially reduce any imminent hazard caused by a hazardous substance, including a spill into the environment of a hazardous substance. The department is authorized to use moneys from the Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund to finance such actions, and such expenditures from the fund shall be recoverable pursuant to s. 376.307.(3) An imminent hazard exists if any hazardous substance creates an immediate and substantial danger to human health, safety, or welfare or to the environment. The department may institute action in its own name, using the procedures and remedies of s. 403.121 or s. 403.131, to abate an imminent hazard. However, the department is authorized to recover a civil penalty of not more than $37,500 for each day of continued violation. Whenever serious harm to human health, safety, and welfare; the environment; or private or public property may occur before completion of an administrative hearing or other formal proceeding that might be initiated to abate the risk of serious harm, the department may obtain, ex parte, an injunction without paying filing and service fees before the filing and service of process.(4) The department may implement the provisions of chapter 386 in its own name whenever a hazardous substance is being generated, transported, disposed of, stored, or treated in violation of those provisions of law.(5) The department may issue a permit or order requiring prompt abatement of an imminent hazard.(6) The department may remove or dispose of any hazardous substance which has become an imminent hazard, or take any other emergency action, when the owner or operator of a hazardous waste facility or a generator or transporter of a hazardous substance does not take appropriate action to abate or neutralize the hazard.(7) Where a hazardous substance is discharged into waters of the state and abatement action is taken pursuant to this section, the department may require that the affected body of water be restored to meet, but not exceed, either the standards established by department rule for that particular body of water or ambient water quality prior to the discharge, whichever is higher. However, under no circumstances would the subject water have to be restored to a more pure state than ambient water quality prior to the discharge.History.—s. 8, ch. 80-302; s. 36, ch. 84-338; s. 4, ch. 95-144; s. 68, ch. 96-321; s. 38, ch. 2000-153; s. 25, ch. 2007-184; s. 22, ch. 2020-158; s. 29, ch. 2021-51.
FL Stat § 403.7264 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.7264 - Amnesty days for purging small quantities of hazardous wastes.

403.7264 Amnesty days for purging small quantities of hazardous wastes.—Amnesty days are authorized by the state for the purpose of purging small quantities of hazardous waste, free of charge, from the possession of homeowners, farmers, schools, state agencies, and small businesses. These entities have no appropriate economically feasible mechanism for disposing of their hazardous wastes at the present time. In order to raise public awareness on this issue, provide an educational process, accommodate those entities which have a need to dispose of small quantities of hazardous waste, and preserve the waters of the state, amnesty days shall be carried out in the following manner:(1)(a) The department shall administer and supervise amnesty days and shall contract with a department-approved, bonded waste handling company for implementation. The waste collected from the entities named in this section shall be transported out of the state for proper disposal at a federally approved facility.(b) If a local government has established a local or regional hazardous waste collection center pursuant to s. 403.7265(2) and such center is in operation, the department and the local government may enter into a contract whereby the local government shall administer and supervise amnesty days. If a contract is entered into, the department shall provide to the local government, from funds appropriated to the department for amnesty days, an amount of money as determined by the department that is equal to the amount of money that would have been spent by the department to administer and supervise amnesty days in the local government’s area. A local government that wishes to administer and supervise amnesty days shall notify the department at least 30 days prior to the beginning of the state fiscal year during which the amnesty days are scheduled to be held in the local government’s area.(2) The department shall establish maximum amounts of hazardous waste to be accepted from any one entity during amnesty days. Amnesty days shall continue, at no cost to participants reporting with less than 100 pounds of hazardous waste, until funds appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose have been exhausted.(3) Local governments are required to participate in the program by selecting a highly visible site for amnesty days, publicizing the event, and sending a representative to work at amnesty days activities when they occur.(4) Amnesty days shall be funded on a continuing basis, as needed, from the Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund. The department is authorized to use up to 5 percent of the funds appropriated for amnesty days for administrative costs and up to 5 percent of such funds for public education related to amnesty days.History.—s. 34, ch. 83-310; s. 37, ch. 84-338; s. 39, ch. 86-186; s. 7, ch. 88-393; s. 413, ch. 94-356; s. 51, ch. 2009-21; s. 26, ch. 2015-30.
FL Stat § 403.728 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.728 - Qualifications of operation personnel of hazardous waste facilities.

403.728 Qualifications of operation personnel of hazardous waste facilities.—The owner and operator of a hazardous waste facility shall employ persons who are adequately trained, or who are registered in a training program, to operate and maintain a hazardous waste facility. The department may develop and conduct onsite or classroom training programs for persons who operate or maintain hazardous waste facilities. The department may do so through its employees or by contract. The program may include training in personal and public safety, emergency measures, properties of the waste, and such other items as the department deems necessary.History.—s. 8, ch. 80-302.
FL Stat § 403.73 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.73 - Trade secrets; confidentiality.

403.73 Trade secrets; confidentiality.—(1) Records, reports, or information obtained from any person under this part, unless otherwise provided by law, must be available to the public, except upon a showing satisfactory to the department by the person from whom the records, reports, or information is obtained that such records, reports, or information, or a particular part thereof, contains trade secrets as defined in s. 812.081. Such trade secrets are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. The person submitting such trade secret information to the department must request that it be kept confidential and must inform the department of the basis for the claim of trade secret. The department shall, subject to notice and opportunity for hearing, determine whether the information, or portions thereof, claimed to be a trade secret is or is not a trade secret. Such trade secrets may be disclosed, however, to authorized representatives of the department or, pursuant to request, to other governmental entities in order for them to properly perform their duties, or when relevant in any proceeding under this part. Authorized representatives and other governmental entities receiving such trade secret information shall retain its confidentiality. Those involved in any proceeding under this part, including an administrative law judge, a hearing officer, or a judge or justice, shall retain the confidentiality of any trade secret information revealed at such proceeding.(2) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.History.—s. 8, ch. 80-302; s. 3, ch. 90-74; s. 5, ch. 95-366; s. 243, ch. 96-406; s. 158, ch. 96-410; s. 8, ch. 2016-6.
FL Stat § 403.74 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.74 - Management of hazardous materials by governmental agencies.

403.74 Management of hazardous materials by governmental agencies.—(1) For the purposes of this section, “hazardous materials” are those substances which are:(a) Listed as constituents of waste streams F001, F002, F003, F004, and F005 in 40 C.F.R. s. 261.31, or(b) Listed in 40 C.F.R. s. 261.33, including those substances which are “pesticides” as defined by s. 487.021.(2) Every local, state, or other governmental agency and every institution of the State University System that disposes of hazardous materials shall:(a) Notify the department of the type and approximate annual quantity of each hazardous material that is generated.(b) Notify the department of the management practices used for disposal of its hazardous materials.(3) Each such agency shall develop written plans for the management of the disposal of hazardous material.(4) Each such agency shall develop plans for spill prevention control and countermeasures for hazardous materials incidents.(5) Hazardous materials which are used by governmental agencies in annual quantities of less than 1 kilogram, except for those hazardous materials which are listed because of reactivity, are exempt from this section.History.—s. 36, ch. 83-310; s. 39, ch. 84-338; s. 56, ch. 85-81; s. 35, ch. 92-115; s. 415, ch. 94-356.Note.—Former s. 501.118.
FL Stat § 403.75 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.75 - Definitions relating to used oil.

403.75 Definitions relating to used oil.—As used in ss. 403.75-403.769 and s. 526.01, as amended by chapter 84-338, Laws of Florida, the term:(1) “Public used oil collection center” means:(a) Automotive service facilities or governmentally sponsored collection facilities, which in the course of business accept for disposal small quantities of used oil from households; and(b) Facilities which store used oil in aboveground tanks, which are approved by the department, and which in the course of business accept for disposal small quantities of used oil from households.(2) “Department” means the Department of Environmental Protection.(3) “Person” means any individual, private or public corporation, partnership, cooperative, association, estate, political subdivision, or governmental agency or instrumentality.(4) “Processing” means chemical or physical operations designed to produce from used oil, or to make used oil more amenable for production of, fuel oils, lubricants, or other used oil-derived products. Processing includes, but is not limited to: blending used oil with virgin petroleum products, blending used oils to meet the fuel specifications, filtration, simple distillation, chemical or physical separation and rerefining.(5) “Recycling” means to prepare used oil for reuse as a petroleum product by rerefining, reclaiming, reprocessing, or other means or to use used oil in a manner that substitutes for a petroleum product made from new oil.(6) “Rerefining” means the use of refining processes on used oil to produce high-quality base stocks for lubricants or other petroleum products. Rerefining may include distillation, hydrotreating, or treatments employing acid, caustic, solvent, clay, or other chemicals, or other physical treatments.(7) “Used oil” means any oil which has been refined from crude oil or synthetic oil and, as a result of use, storage, or handling, has become contaminated and unsuitable for its original purpose due to the presence of physical or chemical impurities or loss of original properties.History.—s. 57, ch. 84-338; s. 25, ch. 88-130; s. 46, ch. 93-207; s. 416, ch. 94-356.
FL Stat § 403.751 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.751 - Prohibited actions; used oil.

403.751 Prohibited actions; used oil.—(1)(a) No person may collect, transport, store, recycle, use, or dispose of used oil in any manner which endangers the public health or welfare.(b) No person may discharge used oil into sewers, drainage systems, septic tanks, surface or ground waters, watercourses, or marine waters.(c) No person may mix or commingle used oil with solid waste that is to be disposed of in landfills or directly dispose of used oil in landfills in Florida unless approved by the department.(d) Any person who unknowingly disposes into a landfill any used oil which has not been properly segregated or separated from other solid wastes by the generator is not guilty of a violation under this act.(e) No person may mix or commingle used oil with hazardous substances that make it unsuitable for recycling or beneficial use.(2) Used oil shall not be used for road oiling, dust control, weed abatement, or other similar uses that have the potential to release used oil into the environment.History.—s. 58, ch. 84-338; s. 26, ch. 88-130.
FL Stat § 403.753 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.753 - Public educational program about collection and recycling of used oil.

403.753 Public educational program about collection and recycling of used oil.—The department shall conduct a public education program to inform the public of the needs for and benefits of collecting and recycling used oil and shall:(1) Encourage persons who annually sell at retail, in containers for use off the premises, more than 500 gallons of oil to provide the purchasers with information on the locations of collection facilities and information on proper disposal practices.(2) Establish, maintain, and publicize a used oil information center that disperses materials or information explaining local, state, and federal laws and rules governing used oil and informing the public of places and methods for proper disposal of used oil.(3) Encourage the voluntary establishment of used oil collection and recycling programs and provide technical assistance to persons who organize such programs.(4) Encourage the procurement of recycled automotive, industrial, and fuel oils, and oils blended with recycled oils, for all state and local government uses. Recycled oils procured under this section shall meet equipment manufacturer’s specifications. A 5-percent price preference may be given in procuring these recycled products.History.—s. 59, ch. 84-338; s. 27, ch. 88-130.
FL Stat § 403.7531 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XXIX - Public Health|Chapter 403 - Environmental Control|Part IV - Resource Recovery and Management (Ss. 403.702-403.7721)|403.7531 - Notice by retail dealer.

403.7531 Notice by retail dealer.—A retail dealer who annually sells directly to the public more than 500 gallons of oil in containers for use off-premises shall post in a prominent place the toll-free telephone number the public can call to learn the location of a public used oil collection center.History.—s. 47, ch. 93-207.