Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-330 - ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE PERMITTING › Section 62-330.447 - General Permit to the Florida Department of Transportation, Counties, and Municipalities for Minor Activities Within Existing Rights-of-Way or Easements

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) A general
				permit is granted to the Florida Department of Transportation, counties, and
				municipalities to conduct the activities described below.
(a) The extension of existing culverts and
				crossing approaches that are authorized under a separate permit or exemption
				under Part IV of Chapter 373, F.S., as applicable, to accommodate widening of
				the roadway where excavation or deposition of material shall not exceed 1, 000
				cubic yards in wetlands and other surface waters and the area from which
				material is excavated or to which material is deposited shall not exceed a
				total of 0.25 acre at any one culverted crossing. The 1, 000 cubic yardage
				limitation shall be separately applied to excavation and deposition of
				material.
(b) Relocation,
				recontouring, widening, or reconstruction of existing highway drainage ditches
				through uplands provided the floor elevation of the ditch is not deepened below
				the original design elevation and provided that the work does not cause a
				change in the hydrology of any wetlands which are connected to or which are
				adjacent to the ditch.
(c) Culvert
				placement, replacement, and maintenance associated with existing roadways,
				provided that construction does not cause scour in the downstream waters or
				increase the velocity of the water downstream, does not reduce existing flood
				conveyance of the stream for the 100-year flood flow and does not reduce
				existing flood storage within the 10-year flood plain. The material excavated
				or deposited as fill shall not exceed 1, 000 cubic yards in wetlands and other
				surface waters. The cross sectional area of the culvert shall not be reduced,
				unless the reduced cross section provides an equal or greater discharge
				capability. In the case of a culvert replacement as a wildlife crossing, the
				cross sectional area shall not be reduced.
(d) Construction of temporary bypass lanes
				and stream channel diversions necessary to complete projects detailed in
				paragraph (c), above, provided the area used for the temporary bypass lanes and
				temporary diversion is restored to its previous contours and
				elevations.
(e) Channel clearing
				and shaping, not to exceed a combined total of 0.5 acre of dredging and filling
				in wetlands and other surface waters, to facilitate maximum hydraulic
				efficiency of structures authorized by paragraph (c), above, where the spoil
				material is used on an upland portion of the project or is deposited on a
				self-contained, upland spoil site. Escape of spoil material and return water
				from the spoil deposition area into wetlands or other surface waters is
				prohibited.
(f) Ditch or canal bank
				and bottom stabilization necessary to repair erosion damage to restore
				previously existing ditch configurations. Authorized repair methods are
				placement of riprap, sand cement toe walls, clean fill material, poured
				concrete, geotechnical textiles and other similar stabilization materials. The
				placement of riprap or other lining materials shall be limited to a length of
				500 feet along the axis of the ditch or canal. This general permit shall not be
				applicable within one-quarter mile along the length of an area, within the same
				ditch, which has been stabilized under this general permit within a three-year
				period.
(g) Roadway safety
				activities, such as installation of shoulders, sidewalks, guard rails, signs,
				poles, and mast arms within an existing right-of-way that incur no more
				dredging or filling than 500 square feet per activity, provided the total
				impact to wetlands or other surface waters does not involve more than 0.5
				acre.