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Comprehensive Plan Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element REGULATORY FRAMEWORK The wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal system is regulated by various agencies at all levels of government. Table 3.A.4 shows the state and local agencies involved in wastewater regulation and the types of activities in which they are involved. FEDERAL The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (PL 92-500) and its amendments through the Clean Water Acts of 1977 (PL 95-217) and 1981 (PL 97-117) are the basis for pollution control regulation in the nation. The goal of these acts is the restoration and/or maintenance of the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's water. The act established a national policy of implementing areawide wastewater treatment and management programs to ensure adequate control of sources of pollution. Under a provision of PL 92-500, grants are made available to local governments to construct facilities to treat "point sources" of pollution, including effluent from sewage treatment processes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for implementing the act. STATE The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is the agency responsible for ensuring that the State carries out the requirements of PL 92-500. In response to PL 92-500, DEP has adopted Chapters 17-3 and 17-6, FAC. These chapters regulate wastewater facilities which treat flows exceeding 10,000 GPD. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) regulates septic system installations per Section 381.0065 Florida Statutes (FS). The DOH- Indian River locally administers the septic system program for Indian River County. These regulations for septic system permitting are in Chapter 64E-6, Florida Administrative Code (FAC). While 64E-6 FAC does not set the criteria for septic system effluent quality, it does require that septic systems be installed in such a manner that, with reasonable maintenance, they will not create a health hazard or endanger the safety of any domestic water supply. In addition to regulating wastewater facilities, Sections 381.0065(2)(a) and 381.00655 (FS) also establish criteria for mandatory connections to wastewater systems. Pursuant to those sections, public sanitary sewer is considered available when gravity sewer lines or low-pressure lines are in a right-of-way or easement adjacent to a property or lot, when any use producing more than 1,000 gallons per day has public sewer lines within 50 feet of a property line and has access to the lines via a public right-of-way or easement, when a public sewer line is accessible and within '/ mile of a proposed residential subdivision of more than 50 lots, when a public sewer line is accessible and within '/ mile of a proposed commercial subdivision of more than 5 lots, or when a public sewer line is accessible and within'/ mile of a proposed use in an area zoned or used for an industrial, manufacturing, or equivalent use. When repairs or modifications are needed to a use in an area zoned or used for industrial or manufacturing or its equivalent, that use must also Community Development Department Indian River County 24 AttacMent 4