Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62B - Beaches and Coastal Systems › Chapter 62B-33 - RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR COASTAL CONSTRUCTION AND EXCAVATION (PERMITS FOR CONSTRUCTION SEAWARD OF THE COASTAL CONSTRUCTION CONTROL LINE AND FIFTY-FOOT SETBACK) › Section 62B-33.002 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) "Agent" is any person with the written
				power or authority to act on behalf of the applicant for purposes of an
				application submitted under Chapter 161, F.S.
(2) "Applicant" is any person, firm,
				corporation, county, municipality, township, special district, or any public
				agency or their authorized agent having authority pursuant to Section
				 161.052 or
				 161.053, F.S., to request a
				permit to conduct construction seaward of the control line or fifty-foot
				setback. An applicant may include the owner of record, agent, leaseholder, or
				holder of any legal instrument which gives the holder legal authority to
				undertake the construction for which a permit is sought.
(3) "Armoring" is a manmade structure
				designed to either prevent erosion of the upland property or protect structures
				from the effects of coastal wave and current action. Armoring includes certain
				rigid coastal structures such as geotextile bags or tubes, seawalls,
				revetments, bulkheads, retaining walls, or similar structures but does not
				include jetties, groins, or other construction whose purpose is to add sand to
				the beach and dune system, alter the natural coastal currents, or stabilize
				inlet shorelines.
(4) "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.
(5) "Beach and 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.
(6) "Coastal Construction Control Line"
				(CCCL) or "Control Line" is the line established pursuant to the provisions of
				Section  161.053, F.S., and recorded in
				the official records of the county, which defines that portion of the
				beach-dune system subject to severe fluctuations based on a 100-year storm
				surge, storm waves, or other predictable weather conditions.
(7) "Coastal System" is the beach and
				adjacent upland dune system and vegetation seaward of the CCCL; swash zone;
				surf zone; breaker zone; offshore and longshore shoals; reefs and bars; tidal,
				wind, and wave driven currents; longshore and onshore/offshore drift of
				sediment materials; inlets and their ebb and flood tide shoals and zones of
				primary tidal influence; and all other associated natural and manmade
				topographic features and coastal construction.
(8) "Construction" is any work or activity,
				including those activities specified in Sections
				 161.053(2)  and
				 161.052, F.S., which may have an
				impact as defined in this rule.
(9)
				"Construction Debris" is the refuse, trash, or discarded material resulting
				from storm damage, or the construction or demolition of a structure. For the
				purpose of this Chapter, construction debris shall not include such material
				which has been sorted, cleaned, and otherwise processed such that it meets the
				suitability criteria for armoring materials set forth in this
				Chapter.
(10) "Department" is the
				Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
(11) "Dune" is a mound, bluff or ridge of
				loose sediment, usually sand-sized sediment, lying upland of the beach and
				deposited by any natural or artificial mechanism, which may be bare or covered
				with vegetation and is subject to fluctuations in configuration and location.
(a) "Significant dune" is a dune which has
				sufficient height and configuration or vegetation to offer protective
				value.
(b) "Primary dune" is a
				significant dune which has sufficient alongshore continuity to offer protective
				value to upland property. The primary dune may be separated from the frontal
				dune by an interdunal trough; however, the primary dune may be considered the
				frontal dune if located immediately landward of the beach.