Florida Administrative Code

(1) This general permit authorizes the following activities: (a) Dredging or filling in state-assumed waters for the construction of stormwater management facilities, including stormwater detention basins and retention basins and other stormwater management facilities; (b) The co…

(1) This general permit authorizes dredging or filling in state-assumed waters for mining activities, provided the activity meets all of the following criteria: (a) For mining activities involving dredging or filling in wetlands, the activity must not cause the loss of greater th…

(1) This general permit authorizes the following activities: (a) Dredging or filling in state-assumed waters for activities associated with the restoration of upland areas damaged by storms, floods, or other discrete events. (b) Bank stabilization to protect the restored uplands.…

(1) This general permit authorizes activities in ditches that: (a) Are constructed in uplands, (b) Receive water from an area determined to be a water of the United States prior to the construction of the ditch, (c) Divert water to an area determined to be a water of the United S…

(1) This general permit authorizes the following activities: (a) Dredging or filling in state-assumed waters for new and continuing commercial shellfish aquaculture operations in authorized project areas. For the purposes of this general permit, the project area is the area in wh…

(1) This general permit authorizes dredging or filling in state-assumed waters for the construction, expansion, or modification of land-based renewable energy production facilities, including attendant features. (a) Such facilities include infrastructure to collect solar (concent…

(1) This general permit authorizes dredging or filling in state-assumed waters for the construction, expansion, modification, or removal of water-based wind, water-based solar, wave energy, or hydrokinetic renewable energy generation pilot projects and their attendant features. (…

(1) This general permit authorizes structures, work, dredging, and filling associated with the removal of low-head dams. For the purposes of this general permit, the term "low-head dam" is defined as a dam built across a stream to pass flows from upstream over all, or nearly all,…

(1) This general permit authorizes activities required for the construction of Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) projects, with a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and/or FDOT approved Environmental Document (PD&E, Categorical…

(1) This rule's intent is to provide a unified statewide methodology for the delineation of the extent of wetlands and surface waters to satisfy the mandate of Section 373.421, F.S. This delineation methodology is intended to approximate the combined landward extent of wetlands a…

When used in this chapter, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Aquatic plant" means a plant, including the roots, which typically floats on water or requires water for its entire structural support, or which will desiccate outside of water. (2) "Canopy" means the plant stratum c…

The landward extent (i.e., the boundary) of wetlands as defined in subsection 62-340.200(19), F.A.C., shall be determined by applying reasonable scientific judgment to evaluate the dominance of plant species, soils, and other hydrologic evidence of regular and periodic inundation…

Dominance of plant species, as described in paragraphs 62-340.300(2)(a) and 62-340.300(2)(b), F.A.C., shall be determined in a plant stratum (canopy, subcanopy, or ground cover). The top stratum shall be used to determine dominance unless the top stratum, exclusive of facultative…

(1) Obligate Species: Scientific Name Common Name Acer saccharinum maple, silver Acoelorraphe wrightii palm, paurotis Acrostichum spp. leather fern Aeschynomene pratensis joint-vetch, meadow Agalinis linifolia false-foxglove, flax-leaf Agalinis maritima false-foxglove, saltmarsh …

The indicators below may be used as evidence of inundation or saturation when used as provided in Rule 62-340.300, F.A.C. Several of the indicators reflect a specific water elevation. These specific water elevation indicators are intended to be evaluated with meteorological infor…

A wetland delineation using the methodology described above, can be refuted by either reliable hydrologic records or site specific hydrologic data which indicate that neither inundation for at least seven consecutive days, nor saturation for at least twenty consecutive days, occu…

(1) For the purposes of Section 373.421, F.S., surface waters are waters on the surface of the earth, contained in bounds created naturally or artificially, including, the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, bays, bayous, sounds, estuaries, lagoons, lakes, ponds, impoundments, ri…

(1) Alteration and maintenance of the following shall be exempt from the rules adopted by the department and the water management districts to implement Sections 373.414(1) through 373.414(6), 373.414(8) and 373.414(10), F.S.; and Section 373.414(7), F.S., regarding any authority…

Construction, alteration, operation, maintenance, removal, and abandonment of stormwater management systems, dams, impoundments, reservoirs, appurtenant works, or works, in, on or over lands that have become surface waters or wetlands solely because of mosquito control activities…

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.416, 373.418, 373.426 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 10-1-07, Transferred to 62-330.021.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.416, 373.418, 373.426 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 2-19-03, 10-1-07, Transferred to 62-330.401.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.044, 373.406(5), 373.118(1), 373.129, 373.136, 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.416, 373.422, 373.423, 373.429 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 10…

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), (5), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(1), (9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.426 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 12-9-09, Transferred to 62-330.417.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.426 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.427.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.044, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1), 403.813(1), 403.814(1) FS. Law Implemented 253.04, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.426, 403.813(1), 403.814(1) FS. History-New 8-4-05, Tr…

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.431.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.437.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.439.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.419 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 10-1-07, Transferred to 62-330.443.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.419 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 10-1-07, Transferred to 62-330.447.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.418, 403.805(1), 403.813(1)(t) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.416, 373.418, 373.419, 403.813(1)(t) FS. History-New 2-22-07, Amended 10-1-07,…

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.453.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.455.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.457.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.463.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.467.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.426 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.475.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026, 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 2-19-03, Amended 11-3-04, Transferred to 62-330.476.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 10-1-07, Transferred to 62-330.483.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.416, 373.418, 373.426 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 10-1-07, Transferred to 62-330.485.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026, 373.043, 373.044, 373.118, 373.406, 373.414(9) FS. Law Implemented 373.026, 373.043, 373.046, 373.118, 373.403, 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.419, 373.422, 373.423, 373.426 FS. History-New 12-5-06, Transferred to 62-330.630.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.4145, 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Amended 10-1-07, Transferred to 62-330.487.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1), 403.814(1) FS. Law Implemented 253.002, 253.77(4), 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.426, 403.813(1)(f), 403.813(2), 403.814(1) FS. History-New 8-4-02, Trans…

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118, 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118, 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.426 FS. History-New 9-4-05, Transferred to 62-330.491.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118, 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118, 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418, 373.426 FS. History-New 9-4-05, Transferred to 62-330.492.

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1), 403.814(1) FS. Law Implemented 253.002, 253.77(1), 253.77(4), 258.42, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(1), 373.414(1)(b), 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.426, 403.061(34), 403.813(…

Rulemaking Authority 373.026(7), 373.043, 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.414(9), 373.418, 403.805(1) FS. Law Implemented 373.118(1), 373.406(5), 373.413, 373.414(9), 373.416, 373.418 FS. History-New 10-3-95, Transferred to 62-330.505.