Notice of Proposed Rule for the Water Well Permitting and Construction Requirements Rule, Chapter 62-532, F.A.C.

 

The Department is amending Florida’s Water Well Permitting and Construction rule.

The proposed rule amendments will consist of the following:

The proposed amendments to the rule add four new definitions, set forth the construction standards for wells serving bottled water plants and wells permitted pursuant to Chapter 62-524, F.A.C., set forth the geothermal well tubing and fitting material standards and grouting requirements, amends several technical drilling methods related to well construction and grouting requirements, amends the alternate grouting requirements, updates the references to NSF International and the American National Standards Institute, updates the setback distances and footnotes in Table 1, and adopts new statewide forms for water well permitting. In addition, the rulemaking uses plain language as much as possible, corrects or improves grammar, and updates citations where needed.

Announcements/Upcoming Events

• The Notice of Proposed Rule for Secretarial adoption of the proposed amendments to Chapter 62-532, F.A.C. will be published in the Florida Administrative Weekly on June 11, 2010.

• A public hearing will be held at the date, time and place shown below, if requested on or before 5:00 pm, July 2, 2010:

Date & Time: July 7, 2010; 10:00 a.m.
Place: Conference Room 609, Department of Environmental Protection, 2600 Blair Stone Rd., Tallahassee, FL

Download (All files are in Adobe PDF format unless otherwise notated.)

• Notice of Proposed Rule Chapter 62-532, F.A.C.

• Current Chapter 62-532, F.A.C.

• Proposed Amendments to Chapter 62-532, F.A.C.

• Proposed Permit Application and Completion Report Forms

• Statement of Estimate Regulatory Cost

More Information

For more information on this rule development, to be added to a mailing list, or to submit written comments on the propose rule amendments, please contact:

David James, PG (David.James@dep.state.fl.us)
Professional Geologist, Ground Water Regulatory Section
Mail Station 3580
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
2600 Blair Stone Road
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400
850-245-8648

Visit the ground water webpage for general information about ground water.