Bill Text: FL S0458 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Wastewater Grants
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2023-05-05 - Died in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government [S0458 Detail]
Download: Florida-2023-S0458-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Wastewater Grants
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2023-05-05 - Died in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government [S0458 Detail]
Download: Florida-2023-S0458-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2023 SB 458 By Senator Rodriguez 40-01173-23 2023458__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the wastewater grant program; 3 amending s. 403.0673, F.S.; authorizing the Department 4 of Environmental Protection to provide wastewater 5 grant program grants to projects directed at or 6 focused on a water body included on a specified list 7 of impaired waters; providing an effective date. 8 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 11 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 403.0673, Florida 12 Statutes, is amended to read: 13 403.0673 Wastewater grant program.—A wastewater grant 14 program is established within the Department of Environmental 15 Protection. 16 (1) Subject to the appropriation of funds by the 17 Legislature, the department may provide grants for all of the 18 following projects that are within a basin management action 19 plan, an alternative restoration plan adopted by final order, or 20 a rural area of opportunity under s. 288.0656 or that are 21 directed at or focused on a water body included on the verified 22 list of impaired waters developed by the department pursuant to 23 s. 403.067(4) which will individually or collectively reduce 24 excess nutrient pollution: 25 (a) Projects to retrofit onsite sewage treatment and 26 disposal systems to upgrade such systems to enhanced nutrient 27 reducing onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems. 28 (b) Projects to construct, upgrade, or expand facilities to 29 provide advanced waste treatment, as defined in s. 403.086(4). 30 (c) Projects to connect onsite sewage treatment and 31 disposal systems to central sewer facilities. 32 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.