No. CS/HB 1089
Filed under Environment & Water.
Waste Facilities; Prohibits local government & DEP from issuing construction permit for certain solid waste disposal & waste-to-energy facilities under certain circumstances.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDBars local governments and the Department of Environmental Protection from issuing construction permits for a new ash-burning solid waste incinerator or waste-to-energy facility sited within 1 mile of certain large, federally authorized water-storage impoundments.
The protected impoundments are ones with at least 100 acres of interior storage used for storing and distributing surface water, restoring wetlands and hydropatterns in a water conservation area, sheltering threatened or endangered species, flood control, or groundwater recharge.
Canals, facilities already built or operating by July 1, 2026, and any site in a county with fewer than 1.7 million residents are excluded, so the ban reaches only new facilities in Florida's most populous counties.
AIA local government may not issue a construction permit for a new solid waste disposal facility with an ash-producing incinerator, or for a waste-to-energy facility, if it would sit within 1 mile of a qualifying large water-storage impoundment.
AIThe Department of Environmental Protection may not issue its own construction permit for the same kind of ash-incinerator or waste-to-energy facility in the same protected locations, closing the state-level permitting path as well as the local one.
AIThe permitting ban does not apply statewide. It exempts canals, any facility or operation already existing or under construction as of July 1, 2026, and any parcel in a county with a population below 1.7 million, so the restriction binds only Florida's most populous counties.