Dear Friend,
The meeting is an opportunity to demand strong springs harm rules with real, effective protections.
For some quick background: For seven years, FDEP has disregarded state law and refused to propose statutorily required rules to protect Outstanding Florida Springs.
In 2022, after more than six years of delay, FDEP finally proposed a draft rule. However, it was essentially the same as the rules already adopted for all water bodies in 2014. FDEP withdrew the proposed rule after opposition from the Florida Springs Council, Sierra Club Florida and Senator David Simmons, the co-sponsor and author of the 2016 law.
Monday’s meeting in Gainesville is our chance to hold the agency accountable for not preventing harm to Outstanding Florida Springs.
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Onward,
Rep. Anna V. Eskamani