Florida Department of Environmental Protection

You know, kids' immune systems.

And under the settlement, I'm reading right aloud here, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has agreed to prohibit new conventional septic tanks on lots of 10 acres or less within the Wekiva Basin and require existing septic systems on lots that size to upgrade.

So this is just, I'm all for it.

this situation here.

What an incredible milestone.

You've had a distinguished career from your early days with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection working on the historic Everglades Restoration Program to serving as Chief of Planning for Jacksonville District and the South Atlantic Division and finally leading the entire planning enterprise at headquarters since 2020.

How does it feel to see the Rapid Framework roll out as a major capstone to your career?

Well, first, thanks to you both.

Uh, no.

And I would like to also, um, so I normally, when I volunteer with Florida State Parks, that would be the DEP, um, Department of Envi- Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and then the, the ones that pulled my records was, were Florida, you know, FWC, the Florida-

Oh, no, no, I, I understand too, a sub-a- the, the agency is the State of Florida.

Mm-hmm.

I mentioned FDACs first and foremost.

They are the ones that do certify, and that was a huge coup on a regulatory standpoint where we took FWC, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the water management districts, the counties that everybody enrolled the permitted into a one-stop shop with the Florida Department of Ag and aquaculture is agriculture in the state of Florida.

Nationally, we are the envy of a lot of other state and state producers because they're still regulated by natural resource entities or fishing and hunting regulators.

University of Florida IFAS, go Gators.