403.0873 Florida Air-Operation License Fee Account.—The “Florida Air-Operation License Fee Account” is established as a nonlapsing account within the Department of Environmental Protection’s Air Pollution Control Trust Fund. All license fees paid pursuant to s. 403.0872(11) shall be deposited in such account and must be used solely by the department and approved local programs under the advice and consent of the Legislature to pay the direct and indirect costs required to develop and administer the major stationary source air-operation permit program. Any approved local pollution control program that accepts funds from the department as reimbursement for services it performs in the implementation of the major source air-operation permit program, receives delegation from the department or the United States Environmental Protection Agency for implementation of the major source air-operation permit program, or performs functions, duties, or activities substantially similar to or duplicative of the services performed by the department or the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the implementation of the major source air-operation permit program is prohibited from collecting additional fees attributable to such services from any source permitted under s. 403.0872.
History.—s. 5, ch. 92-132; s. 3, ch. 94-321; s. 363, ch. 94-356.
