Environmental Protection CommissionOverview

Vision: Environmental Excellence in a Changing World

The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County (EPC) was created in 1967 by a special act of the Florida Legislature to control and regulate activities which are or may reasonably be expected to cause pollution or contamination of air, water, soil and property, or cause excessive and unnecessary noise.  

Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough

County

Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough

County Air Management Water Management Wetlands Management Waste Management

Why We Need Groundwater

From USGS website From Tampa Bay Water Website

Threats to Groundwater

How We Protect GroundwaterProtective Programs

Small Quantity Generator ProgramTanks ComplianceWell Head ProtectionPollution PreventionPermitted Facilities

Solid Waste RCRA

How We Protect GroundwaterCorrective Programs

Complaint ResponseCleanup Programs

Federal State Local

Complaint response, measuring lead levels in soil

Federal Cleanup ProgramsResource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

Enacted 1976“cradle-to-grave” regulation of hazardous wasteFrame work for Solid Waste Regulations

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)Enacted 12/11/1980Short-term removals (emergency response) Long term remedial response actions (Superfund sites)

BrownfieldsInitiated in 1995 as Pilot Project, Enacted in 2002Addresses redevelopment of potentially contaminated or

contaminated properties

Number of Federal Sites in Hillsborough County

CERCLA (Superfund)CERCLIS (Evaluate for Superfund)

Active (78 ) Archived (54)Superfund

Active (13) Delisted (4)

RCRADelegated from EPA to State

EPA Emergency Response Excavation Batteries Buried on Hillsborough River

State Cleanup ProgramsHillsborough County

RCRA (delegated from EPA)Active (8) Closed (10)

Waste Cleanup (Chapter 62-780, FAC)Active (197) Closed (133)

Brownfields (Chapter 62-785, FAC)Retained by SW District Active (13)

Closed (9)Petroleum Cleanup (Chapter 62-770, FAC)

Contracted to EPC

Local Cleanup ProgramsPetroleum Cleanup

Contracted to EPC (since 1987) Program Sites

Active (673) Inactive (515) Closed/Remediated (1225)

Old Landfill Program (174)Director Authorization sites (59)

BrownfieldsDelegated to EPC (2004)

Active (14) Closed (4)

Boy Scout Road Landfill Redevelopment

Tanks at IKEA site

What does it all mean?~2940 contaminated sites in the system all with

different types and levels of contamination~1440 sites have been closed and no longer

pose a risk to human health or the environmentMore sites likely to be identified in futureThe federal, state, and local government programs have little to no overlap, except in emergencies like the recent pipeline spill when everyone joins forces to minimize the human health and environmental impacts.