Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62B - Beaches and Coastal Systems › Chapter 62B-56 - BUREAU OF BEACHES AND COASTAL SYSTEMS - RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR USING SAND-FILLED GEOTEXTILE DUNE CORES (PERMITS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE) › Section 62B-56.020 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) "Access" or "public access" as used in
				section  161.053, F.S., means the
				public's right to laterally traverse the sandy beaches of this state where such
				access exists on or after July 1, 1987, or where the public has established a
				shore normal accessway through private lands to lands seaward of the mean high
				tide or water line by prescription, prescriptive easement, or any other legal
				means.
(2) "Adjacent properties"
				are properties next to the property where the construction activity is to take
				place, including those properties separated by a road, right-of-way, or access
				way, in all directions.
(3) "Agent"
				is any person with the written power or authority to act on behalf of the
				responsible entity for purposes of an application submitted under chapter 161,
				F.S.
(4) "Applicant" is any person,
				firm, corporation, county, municipality, township, special district, homeowners
				association, or public agency, requesting a permit to reconstruct a dune system
				seaward of the CCCL. The applicant must be a responsible entity and the owner
				of record, leaseholder, or holder of any legal instrument which gives the
				holder legal authority to undertake the construction for which a permit is
				sought.
(5) "Beach" is the zone of
				unconsolidated material that extends landward from the mean low water line to
				the place where there is marked change in material or physiographic form, or to
				the line of permanent vegetation.
(6) "Beach-dune System" is that portion of
				the coastal system where there has been or there is expected to be, over time
				and as a matter of natural occurrence, cyclical and dynamic emergence,
				destruction, and reemergence of beaches and dunes.
(7) "Beach quality sand" means sand that
				maintains the general appearance, and the engineering and ecological functions
				of the native sand occurring on the beach and in the adjacent dune and coastal
				system. Such sand shall be predominately of carbonate, quartz or similar
				material with a particle size distribution ranging between 0.062mm (4.0phi) and
				4.76mm (-2.25phi) (classified as sand by either the Unified Soils or the
				Wentworth classification), shall be similar in color and grain size
				distribution (sand grain frequency, mean and median grain size and sorting
				coefficient) to the material present on the beach berm seaward of the project
				site and shall not contain:
(a) Greater than
				five percent by weight of silt, clay or colloids passing the #230-sieve
				(4.0phi);
(b) Greater than five
				percent by weight of fine gravel retained on the #4-sieve (-2.25phi);
(c) Coarse gravel, cobbles or material
				retained on the three-quarter inch sieve in a percentage or size greater than
				found on the native beach, or
(d)
				Construction debris, toxic material or other foreign matter; and shall not
				result in cementation of the beach.