Bill Text: FL S1226 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sewage Requirements in Monroe County

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 550 (Ch. 2010-205) [S1226 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1226-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                            (NP)    SB 1226 
 
By Senator Bullard 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to sewage requirements in Monroe 
3         County; amending chapter 99-395, Laws of Florida; 
4         providing exceptions to requirements of the Department 
5         of Environmental Protection regarding minimum casing 
6         for injection wells used by facilities that have a 
7         specified design capacity; providing requirements for 
8         an injection well used as a backup to a primary 
9         injection well; providing an effective date. 
10 
11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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13         Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 6 of chapter 99-395, 
14  Laws of Florida, is amended to read: 
15         Section 6. Sewage requirements in Monroe County.— 
16         (7) Class V injection wells, as defined by Department of 
17  Environmental Protection or Department of Health rule, shall 
18  meet the following requirements and shall otherwise comply with 
19  Department of Environmental Protection or Department of Health 
20  rules, as applicable: 
21         (a) If the design capacity of the facility is less than 
22  1,000,000 gallons per day, the injection well shall be at least 
23  90 feet deep and cased to a minimum depth of 60 feet or to such 
24  greater cased depth and total well depth as may be required by 
25  Department of Environmental Protection rule. 
26         (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) for backup wells, 
27  if the design capacity of the facility is equal to or greater 
28  than 1,000,000 gallons per day, the injection well shall be 
29  cased to a minimum depth of 2,000 feet or to such greater depth 
30  as may be required by Department of Environmental Protection 
31  rule. 
32         (c) If the injection well is used as a backup to a primary 
33  injection well, the following conditions apply: 
34         1. The backup well may be used only when the primary 
35  injection well is out of service because of equipment failure, 
36  power failure, or the need for mechanical integrity testing or 
37  repair; 
38         2. The backup well may not be used for a total of more than 
39  500 hours during any 5-year period, unless specifically 
40  authorized in writing by the Department of Environmental 
41  Protection; 
42         3. The backup well shall be at least 90 feet deep and cased 
43  to a minimum depth of 60 feet, or to such greater cased depth 
44  and total well depth as may be required by rule of the 
45  Department of Environmental Protection; and 
46         4. Fluid injected into the backup well shall meet the 
47  requirements of subsections (5) and (6). 
48         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.