Florida Administrative Code › 40 - WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS › 40E - South Florida Water Management District › Chapter 40E-1 - GENERAL AND PROCEDURAL › Section 40E-1.607 - Permit Application Processing Fees

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
A permit application processing fee is required and shall be
				  paid to the District when certain applications are filed pursuant to District
				  rules. An application shall not be considered complete until the appropriate
				  application fee is submitted. These fees are assessed in order to defray the
				  cost of evaluating, processing, monitoring, and inspecting for compliance
				  required in connection with consideration of such applications. Fees are
				  non-refundable in whole or part unless the activity for which an application is
				  filed is determined by the District to be exempt or the fee submitted is
				  determined by the District to be incorrect. Failure of any person to pay the
				  applicable fees established herein will result in denial of an application.
				  Activities that do not require a permit and are exempt pursuant to Rule
				   40E-2.051 or
				   40E-3.051, F.A.C., are not
				  subject to the following permit application fees. The District's permit
				  application processing fees are as follows:
(1) Water Use Permit Application processing
				fees are in the following table:
TABLE
				   40E-1.607(1)
PERMIT APPLICATION PROCESSING FEES FOR WATER USE PERMIT
				  APPLICATIONS REVIEWED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 40E-2, F.A.C.
Fee amounts shall apply to applications for new permits,
				  permit modifications, and permit renewals, except as noted.
Category
Amount
Individual Permit, except Mining/Dewatering (applies
							 to all durations). Maximum monthly allocation:
Up to 3 million gallons per month (mgm).
$350
Greater than 3 mgm through 15 mgm.
$1, 000
Individual Public Water Supply with a duration less
							 than 20 years.
Maximum monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm through 30 mgm
$2, 700
Greater than 30 mgm through 300 mgm
$5, 500
Greater than 300 mgm
$7, 000
Individual Public Water Supply with a duration of at
							 least 20 years.
Maximum monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm through 30 mgm.
$4, 200
Greater than 30 mgm through 300 mgm.
$8, 500
Greater than 300 mgm.
$11, 500
Individual Irrigation with a duration less than 20
							 years.
Maximum monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm.
$1, 000
Individual Irrigation with a duration of at least 20
							 years.
Maximum Monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm through 30 mgm.
$1, 600
Greater than 30 mgm through 300 mgm.
$3, 400
Greater than 300 mgm.
$5, 600
Individual Mining/Dewatering.
Standard Individual Permit with a total project
							 duration of up to one year.
$500
Standard Individual Permit with a total project
							 duration of greater than one year.
$1, 800
Master Individual Permit.
$4, 000
Individual Commercial/Industrial with a duration less
							 than 20 years.
Maximum monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm through 30 mgm.
$1, 400
Greater than 30 mgm through 300 mgm.
$2, 750
Greater than 300 mgm.
$3, 500
Individual Commercial/Industrial with a duration of
							 at least 20 years.
Maximum monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm through 30 mgm.
$2, 000
Greater than 30 mgm through 300 mgm.
$3, 650
Greater than 300 mgm.
$5, 600
Individual Diversion and Impoundment with a duration
							 less than 20 years. Maximum monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm through 30 mgm.
$1, 400
Greater than 30 mgm through 300 mgm.
$2, 750
Greater than 300 mgm.
$3, 500
Individual Diversion and Impoundment with a duration
							 of at least 20 years. Maximum monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm through 30 mgm.
$2, 000
Greater than 30 mgm through 300 mgm.
$3, 950
Greater than 300 mgm.
$6, 200
Independent Secondary User of a Diversion and
							 Impoundment (applies to all durations).
Maximum monthly allocation:
Greater than 15 mgm through 30 mgm.
$1, 000
Greater than 30 mgm through 300 mgm.
$2, 000
Greater than 300 mgm.
$3, 200
Noticed General Water Use Permit.
Applications filed electronically at
www.sfwmd.gov/ePermitting
.
$100
Application filed by other means.
$350
Aquifer Storage and Recovery: cost added to the
							 applicable use type listed above.
$1, 000
Permit Transfer to Another Entity Pursuant to Rules
							  40E-0.107 and
							  40E-2.351, F.A.C.
$300
Letter Modification.
no fee
General Permit by Rule.
no fee
(2)
				Water Well Construction Permit Application processing fees are in the following
				table:
TABLE
				   40E-1.607(2)
PERMIT APPLICATION PROCESSING FEES FOR WATER WELL
				  CONSTRUCTION PERMIT APPLICATIONS REVIEWED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 40E-3,
				  F.A.C.
Category
Amount
Water Well Construction.
$100
Water Well Abandonment.
no fee
(3)
(a) Environmental Resource Permit Application
				processing fees are in the following table:
TABLE
				   40E-1.607(3)(a)
PERMIT APPLICATION PROCESSING FEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE
				  PERMIT APPLICATIONS REVIEWED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 62-330, F.A.C.
For the purposes of determining the applicable processing
				  fee, "project area" means the total area wherein works occur as part of an
				  activity requiring a permit under Chapter 373, Part IV, F.S., including all
				  portions of the stormwater management system serving the project area.
1. Use of the reviewing agency's electronic
							 self-certification system.
$0
2. Verification of exemption under Section
							  373.406 or
							  403.813(1),
							 F.S. or under Rules  62-330.050 through 62-33.051,
							 F.A.C.
$100
3. Verification of qualification to use a General
							 Permit.
$250
4. Individual or Conceptual Approval Permits,
							 excluding Permits for a Mitigation Bank.
a. New applications - the processing fee for a new
							 permit application shall be as determined from the categories below:
(I) Total project area of less than 10 acres and no
							 activities in, on or over wetlands or other surface waters, except where exempt
							 under paragraphs  62-330.051(9)(a) through
							 (c), F.A.C.
$2, 000
(II) Project exceeds any of the thresholds in
							 sub-sub-subparagraphs (3)(a)4.a.(I), above involves a total project area of
							 less than 10 acres, less than 1 acre of works (i.e. dredging, filling,
							 construction, or alteration) in, on or over wetlands and other surface waters,
							 AND less than 10 new boat slips.
$3, 500
(III) Project exceeds any of the thresholds in
							 sub-sub-subparagraph (3)(a)4.a.(II), above, but involves a total project area
							 of less and 40 acres, less than 3 acres of works in, on or over wetlands and
							 other surface waters, AND less than 30 new boat slips.
$5, 500
(IV) Project exceeds any of the thresholds in
							 sub-sub-subparagraph (3)(a)4.a.(III), above, but involves a total project area
							 of less than 100 acres, less than 10 acres of works in, on or over wetlands and
							 other surface waters, AND less than 50 new boats ships.
$7, 500
(V) Project exceeds any of the thresholds in
							 sub-sub-subparagraph (3)(a)4.a.(IV), above, but involves a total project area
							 of less than 640 acres, AND less than 50 acres of works in, on or over wetlands
							 and other surface waters.
$13, 125
(VI) Project exceeds any of the thresholds
							 sub-sub-subparagraph (3)(a)4.a.(V), above.
$25, 000
(VII) Projects that are exclusively for agriculture
							 or silviculture, and that involve a total project area of less than 10 acres
							 AND less than 1 acre of works (i.e. dredging, filling, construction, or
							 alternatiion) in, on or over wetlands and other surface waters.
$859
(VIII) Projects that are exclusively for agriculture
							 of silviculture, and that exceed any of the thresholds in sub-sub-subparagraph
							 (3)(a)4.a.(VII), above, but involves a total project area of less than 40 acres
							 AND less than 3 acres of works in, on or over wetlands and other surface
							 waters.
$2, 444
(IX) Projects that are exclusively for agriculture or
							 silviculture, and that exceed any of the thresholds in sub-sub- subparagraph
							 (3)(a)4.a.(VIII), above, but involve a total project area of less than 100
							 acres AND less than 10 acres of works in, on or over wetlands and other surface
							 waters.
$4, 029
(X) Projects that are exclusively for agriculture or
							 silviculture, and that exceed any of the thresholds in sub-sub-subparagraph
							 (3)(a)4.a.(IX), above, but involve a total project area of less than 640 acres
							 AND less than 50 acres of works in, on or over wetlands and other surface
							 waters.
$5, 284
(XI) Projects that are exclusively for agriculture or
							 silviculture, and that exceed any of the thresholds in sub-sub-subparagraph
							 (3)(a)4.a.(X), above.
$6, 605
(XII) Individual or Conceptual Permits solely for
							 environmental restoration or enhancement activities, provided such activities
							 are not associated with a mitigation bank and are not being implemented as
							 mitigation for other activities that require a permit under Chapter 373, Part
							 IV, F.S. For the purposes of this provision, the term "environmental
							 restoration or enhancement" means an action or actions designed and implemented
							 solely to convert degraded or altered uplands, wetlands, or other surface
							 waters to intact communities typical of those historically present, or to
							 improve the quality and condition of currently degraded wetlands or other
							 surface waters to the more healthy, functional, and sustaining condition for
							 fish, wildlife, and listed species.
$250
(XIII) Individual or Conceptual Permit solely to
							 retrofit an existing stormwater management system or systems to add treatment
							 to and reduce stormwater pollutant loadings from the system or systems.
$250
(XIV) An Individual Permit for a phase of
							 construction that is consistent with an existing Conceptual Approval
							 Permit.
$1, 500
b. Major Modifications that exceed any of the
							 thresholds in subsection
							  62-330.315(3),
							 F.A.C.
(I) Major Modification to an Individual or Conceptual
							 Approval Permit that increase the project area.
60% of fee for new permit for the same
							 activity
(II) All other Major Modification.
60% of fee for new permit for the same
							 activity
c. Minor Modifications that do not exceed any of the
							 thresholds in subsection
							  62-330.315(2),
							 F.A.C.
(I) Time Extensions of Permits, where not exempt from
							 fees under Florida Statutes.
$500
(II) Minor Modifications to correct minor errors that
							 do not involve technical review, to transfer ownership of a permit, or to
							 transfer a permit from the construction to the operation phase.
$0
(III) All other Minor Modifications.
$250
5. Individual or Conceptual Permits for a Mitigation
							 Bank.
a. New applications.
(I) For a Mitigation Bank with a permit area less
							 than 100 acres.
$7, 500
(II) For a Mitigation Bank with a permit area greater
							 than 100 acres but less than 640 acres.
$13, 125
(III) For a Mitigation Bank with a permit area of 640
							 acres or more.
b. Major Modifications involving changes to one or
							 more of the following components: service area; credit assessment; success or
							 release criteria; hydrologic structures or alterations; constructions or
							 mitigation design that does not increase the project area; elimination of
							 lands; or monitoring or management plans:
$25, 000
(I) Affecting one of the above components.
20% of the fee under 5.a.
(II) Affective to of the above components.
40% of the fee under 5.a.
(III) Affective three of the above components.
60% of the fee under 5.a.
(IV) Major modifications affecting four or more of
							 the above components of the increase the project area.
100% of the fee under 5.a.
c. Major Modification that do not involve changes to
							 the components listed in sub-subparagraph
(3)(a)5.b. above, but that exceed any of the
							 thresholds in subsection
							  62-330.315(2),
							 F.A.C.
100% of the fee under 5.a.
d. Minor Modifications that do not exceed any of the
							 thresholds in subsection
							  62-330.315(2),
							 F.A.C.
(I) Time Extensions of Permits, where not exempt from
							 fees under Florida Statutes.
$500
(II) To correct minor errors that do not involve
							 technical review, to transfer ownership of a permit, or to transfer a permit
							 from the construction to the operation phase.
$0
(III) All other Minor Modifications.
$250
e. Mitigation Bank Credit Release.
$0
f. Mitigation Bank Credit Withdrawal.
$0
6. Informal Wetland Determination.
a. Where total area included is less than 1
							 acre.
$250
b. Where total area included is greater than 1
							 acre.
$500
7. Variance or Waiver:
a. Under Section
							  120.532, F.S.
$0
b. Under Section
							  373.414(17),
							 F.S.
$1, 125
8. Fee reductions.
a. Applications by an entity qualifying under Section
							  218.075, F.S., when the fee
							 exceeds $100.00.
$100.00
b. Applications submitted by the U.S. Department of
							 Defense.
$0
c. For resubmittal, within 365 days, of an
							 application for the same project that was previously withdrawn, under
							 subsection  62-330.071(3),
							 F.A.C., any fee paid as part of the previous application will be applied toward
							 the fee required for the application under this rule.
Previously paid fee shall be applied
9. When used in
				Table paragraph  40E-1.607(3)(a),
				F.A.C., "Agriculture" shall be defined as set forth in Section
				 570.02, F.S.
10. For permit applications which involve a
				combination of fee categories, the highest fee that applies shall be
				charged.
11. Any individual permit
				application submitted concurrently with a conceptual approval application -
				where the individual permit application represents a phase of the conceptual
				approval application - is exempt from the above environmental resource permit
				fees.
12. For projects
				grandfathered pursuant to Section
				 373.414, F.S., the letter
				modification, conceptual approval, individual or general surface water
				management permit application fee shall be the same as listed in Table
				paragraph  40E-1.607(3)(a),
				F.A.C.
13. The District shall use
				the Consumer Price Index (CPI) adopted by the United States Department of Labor
				since the most recently revised fee increase for revising fees under Chapter
				373, Part IV, F.S., pursuant to Section
				 373.109, F.S. The inflation
				index used is the price paid by all urban consumers for a market basket of
				consumer goods and services; specifically, the CPI figures for the "CPI-U, U.S.
				City Average. All Items" established for the previous five years by the Bureau
				of Labor Statistics (BLS) (
www.bls.gov/cpi
), computed as provided in the BLS
				publication Bureau of Labor Staticstics Handbook of Methods, Chapter 17 (
www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch17.pdf
).