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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. IAVTthin- the St Ae-,4The Florida Department of Health (DOH) regulates septic tanks and dr-ainfield system installations per Section 381.0065 Florida .Statutes (FS). ha eget, eeuf --, *'^ The DOH - Indian River locally administers the septic system program for Indian River Count_ has an effi�e to regulate septic syste._,s These regulations for septic system permitting are jiewe been adopted by (tile in Chapter 64E-6, Florida Administrative Code (FAC). While 64E-6 FAC does not set the criteria for septic tafik-s sy tem effluent quality, it does require that septics -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, 64E 6Sections 381.0065(2)(a) and 381.00655 FS also establishes criteria for mandatory connections to wastewater systems . systems. Aeeer-ding to that r-egttla4ien, !aad uses tha4 are within 500 feet of a gr-a:vity line or- 1000 eenaeet to the utilities sysiem. Pursuant to those sections, pPublic 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 1/4 mile of a proposed residential subdivision of more than 50 lots, when a public sewer line is accessible and within 1/ mile of a Community Development Department Indian River County 25 Appendix A