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Board of County Commissioners October 16, 2020 Page 2 On January 8, 2019, the Board approved an ordinance establishing another 180 -day temporary moratorium on the land application of Class B biosolids in the unincorporated areas of Indian River County. The moratorium was again renewed by the Board on June 18, 2019, December 10, 2019, and again on June 16, 2020, and will expire on January 1, 2021. During the 2019 legislative session, the Florida Legislature passed HB 829, which contained language that protected the ability of a county to continue to enforce or extend an ordinance, regulation, resolution, rule, moratorium, or policy adopted before February 1, 2019, relating to the land application of Class B biosolids until the ordinance, regulation, resolution, rule, moratorium, or policy is repealed or until the effective date of the rules adopted by FDEP, whichever occurs first. In the 2020 legislative session, the Florida Legislature passed SB 712, which states that "[a] municipality or county may enforce or extend a local ordinance, regulation, resolution, rule, moratorium, or policy, any of which was adopted before November 1, 2019, relating to the land application of Class A or Class B biosolids until the ordinance, regulation, resolution, rule, moratorium, or policy is repealed by the municipality or county." Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 712 into law on June 30, 2020. Thus, the County Attorney's Office is presenting to the Board another moratorium ordinance consistent with SB 712, which will extend the moratorium to June 30, 2021. FUNDING. The cost of publication of the required public notice for the public hearing was $150.48. The cost was funded from General Fund/County Attorney/Legal Ads (account number 00110214-034910). RECONEMENDATION. The County Attorney's Office recommends that after the public hearing the Board vote to approve the draft ordinance. ATTACHMENT(S). Draft Biosolids Moratorium Ordinance 93