Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62ER-24 - EMERGENCY RULE FOR YEAR 2024 › Section 62ER24-2 - Hurricane Restoration Reimbursement Grant Program

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) This chapter implements the Hurricane
				Restoration Reimbursement Grant Program, to provide financial assistance to
				coastal homeowners for eligible costs related to sand placement, temporary
				coastal armoring, or permanent coastal armoring construction projects to remedy
				coastal beach erosion incurred as a result of preparation for or damage
				sustained from Hurricane Ian or Hurricane Nicole in 2022. The grant program
				also provides financial assistance to local governments and municipalities to
				implement large scale sand placement projects.
(2) For purposes of this rule, the term:
(a) "Eligible applicant" means the
				individual, corporation, trust, or other legal entity eligible to be a grantee.
				An agent may make application upon behalf of an applicant, but such agent is
				not the applicant, grantee, or otherwise eligible for reimbursement.
(b) "Department" means the Department of
				Environmental Protection.
(c)
				"Grantee" means an eligible applicant that is the recorded deeded landowner for
				the eligible residential property who has complied with all documentation
				requirements in paragraph (6)(b) of this rule and received a grant from the
				Department. For a residential condominium or cooperative that is not the
				recorded deeded landowner for the eligible residential property, such entity
				may only be a grantee if alternative evidence is submitted proving legal
				control over the eligible residential property as related to the eligible
				project. For properties sold after September 23, 2022, the grantee may be the
				individual, corporation, trust, or other legal entity that incurred eligible
				costs during the period in which that grantee owned the property.
(d) "Eligible costs" means construction costs
				associated with execution of an eligible project that have been incurred and
				for which the grantee has evidence of payment. Construction costs may include
				design, engineering, construction-related monitoring required by permit or
				contract, surveys, materials, labor, contractors, and construction oversight.
				Eligible costs do not include permit fees or repair of residential structures.
				Reimbursement of eligible costs may be no greater than $300,000 per parcel for
				armoring projects on eligible single family or multi-family residential
				property as defined in (f)1. and $600,000 for armoring projects on eligible
				residential condominium or cooperative properties as defined in (f)2. and 3.
				Reimbursement of eligible costs for armoring projects shall be no greater than
				50 percent of the total cost incurred for the construction. Costs for sand
				placement projects shall be reimbursed at 100 percent of the total construction
				cost.
(e) "Eligible project" means
				construction activities that occurred after September 23, 2022, related to sand
				placement, temporary coastal armoring, or permanent coastal armoring
				construction projects intended to prepare for or remedy coastal beach erosion
				or damage sustained from Hurricane Ian or Hurricane Nicole, on an eligible
				residential property. To be eligible, projects must be permitted or authorized
				under chapter 161, F.S., prior to the commencement of authorized work, exempt
				from permitting requirements, or otherwise authorized by law. The project
				address on any issued permit under chapter 161, F.S., must match the address of
				the eligible residential property.
(f) "Eligible residential property" means a
				parcel that is a coastal property on the beach located in Brevard, Broward,
				Charlotte, Collier, Duval, Flagler, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Nassau,
				Palm Beach, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Sarasota, or Volusia County that is either:
1. A single-family, site-built, residential
				property or a multi-family, site-built, residential property, not to exceed
				four units, where the homeowner has been granted a homestead exemption on the
				home under chapter 196, F.S.;
2. A
				residential condominium, as defined in chapter 718, F.S.; or
3. A cooperative, as defined in chapter 719,
				F.S.
(g) "Low-income or
				moderate-income applicants" are those applicants that are low-income or
				moderate-income person(s) as defined in section
				420.0004, F.S., who provide an
				attestation of income on Form 3 DEP-62ER24-2, Attestation of Low-Income or
				Moderate-Income (effective date July 1, 2024), which is hereby adopted by
				reference into this rule and available at
https://floridadep.gov/HRRGP
.
(h) "Required documentation" means documents
				and evidence required to be submitted as part of the application.