40C-1.603. Permit Fees

A fee is required and shall be paid to the District when certain applications or petitions are filed pursuant to District rules or permit programs delegated to the District. Effective October 1, 1990, governmental entities shall be required to submit the fees established except as provided in subsections (16) through (18). This fee recovers some of the District’s costs of processing applications. The fee schedule is: (1) Chapter 40C-2, F.A.C., consumptive use permits: (a) Applications for consumptive use permits. 1. Consumptive use permits greater than 500,000 gallons of water per day $1,000 2. Consumptive use permits equal to or less than 500,000 gallons of water per day $400 3. Consumptive use permits less than 100,000 gallons of water per day $100 4. Consumptive use permits where the use does not exceed the thresholds in subsection 40C-2.041(1), F.A.C. $50 (b) Modifications of consumptive use permits. 1. Consumptive use permits where the total allocation requested (existing plus any proposed increase) is greater than 500,000 gallons of water per day $200 2. Consumptive use permits where the total allocation requested (existing plus any proposed increase) is equal to or less than 500,000 gallons of water per day 3. Consumptive use permits where the total allocation requested (existing plus any proposed increase) is less than 100,000 gallons of water per day 4. Consumptive use permit where the use does not exceed the thresholds in subsection 40C-2.041(1), F.A.C. $100 $50 $25 5. No fee will be charged for early renewal of an existing permit for implementation of a project that provides a water quantity benefit to a water resource. 6. No fee will be charged for modification of an existing permit applied for by letter pursuant to rule 40C-2.331, F.A.C., regardless of withdrawal amount. (2) Chapter 40C-3, F.A.C., well construction, repair or abandonment permit. (a) Public water supply well $250 (b) All other wells $120 (c) Abandonment of a well $0 (d) Variances $100 (3) Chapter 62-330, F.A.C., individual or conceptual environmental resource permits (excluding mitigation bank permits): (a) New applications (excluding projects described in paragraphs (3)(b) and (3)(c), below) – based on the categories below: 1. Project with no works in, on, or over wetlands and other surface waters, no boat slips, and: a. Total project area of less than 10 acres $490 b. Total project area of more than 10 acres but less than 40 acres $1,190 2. Total project area of less than 10 acres, less than 1 acre of works in, on, or over wetlands and other surface waters, and less than 10 new boat slips $1,190 3. Project exceeds any of the thresholds in subparagraph (3)(a)2., above, but involves a total project area of less than 40 acres, less than 3 acres of works in, on, or over wetlands and other surface waters, and less than 30 new boat slips $2,110 4. Project exceeds any of the thresholds in subparagraph (3)(a)3., above, but involves a total project area of less than 100 acres, less than 10 acres of works in, on, or over wetlands and other surface waters, and less than 50 new boat slips $5,610 5. Project exceeds any of the thresholds in subparagraph (3)(a)4., above, but involves a total project area of less than 640 acres, and less than 50 acres of works in, on, or over wetlands and other surface waters $5,610 6. Project exceeds any of the thresholds in subparagraph (3)(a)5., above $9,120 7. When a project requires a Chapter 40C-44, F.A.C., environmental resource agricultural system permit with no works in, on, or over wetlands and other surface waters, the fee will be the same as the fee under subsection (10), below, based on the acreage. (b) New applications for environmental restoration or enhancement activities (not associated with a mitigation bank and not implemented as mitigation). For purposes of this fee category, “environmental restoration or enhancement” means actions designed and implemented solely to convert degraded or altered uplands, wetlands, or other surface waters back to communities typical of those historically present, or to improve the ecological value of wetlands or other surface waters in comparison to their existing condition. $250 (c) New applications solely for stormwater retrofit projects $250 (d) Major modifications of Chapter 62-330, F.A.C., individual or conceptual environmental resource permits (excluding mitigation bank permits): 1. Major modifications that are consistent with an existing conceptual approval permit 50% of the fee for a new permit under paragraph (3)(a), above, for the activity proposed in the modification 2. Major modifications to a permit that increase the total project area Same as fee for a new permit under paragraph (3)(a), above, for the activity proposed in the modification 3. Other major modifications 50% of the fee for a new permit under paragraph (3)(a), above, for the activity proposed in the modification (e) Minor modifications of Chapter 62-330, F.A.C., individual or conceptual environmental resource permits (excluding mitigation bank permits): 1. Transfers or statutory extensions of permits and correction of minor errors that do not require technical review $0 2. Other extensions $200 or 25% of the fee for a new permit under paragraph (3)(a), above (whichever is less) 3. All other minor modifications 25% of the fee for a new permit under paragraph (3)(a), above, for the activity proposed in the modification (4) Mitigation Bank permits and conceptual approvals $11,960 (a) Major modifications of mitigation bank permits and conceptual approvals involving changes to one or more of the following components: service area; credit assessment; success or release criteria; hydrologic structures or alterations; constructions or mitigation design that does not increase the project area; elimination of lands; or monitoring or management plans $1,410 (b) Other major modifications that do not qualify for a modification under paragraph (4)(a) above, or paragraph (4)(e), below $4,230 (c) Minor modifications of mitigation bank permits and conceptual approvals: 1. Transfers or statutory extensions of permits; correction of minor errors that do not require technical review; mitigation bank credit withdrawals and releases $0 2. All other minor modifications authorized by subsection 62-330.315(2), F.A.C. $270 (5) Chapter 62-330, F.A.C., general environmental resource permits set forth in Rules