Florida Department of Environmental Protection
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| Preceding agencies |
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| Jurisdiction | State of Florida |
| Employees |
2974.50 Career Service, Selected Exempt/Management Service (SES/SMS) Positions (FY1516) 800+ Other Personnel Services (OPS) Positions |
| Annual budget | US$1.44 billion (FY1516) |
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| Website | www.dep.state.fl.us |
2974.50 Career Service, Selected Exempt/Management Service (SES/SMS) Positions (FY1516)
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) is the Florida government agency charged with environmental protection. It is under the nominal control of the governor.
By the mid-1960s, when the federal government was becoming more and more involved in initiatives designed to protect the country's environmental interests, Florida had four agencies involved with environmental protection: the Florida Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (state land, including shores, beaches, wetlands, and bodies of water), the Department of Health (sewage treatment, drinking water quality), Florida Department of Natural Resources (state parks and recreation areas), and Game and Freshwater Fish Commission (hunting and fishing).
In the late 1960s, the Florida Department of Air and Water Pollution Control was created under Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. Most staff were being taken from the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the state Department of Health. The name of the new agency was simplified to the Florida Department of Pollution Control.
In the mid-1970s he Florida Department of Environmental Regulation (FDER) was created from the Department of Pollution Control and portions of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund and the Florida Department of Natural Resources. This revised agency was entrusted with the quality of the state's air and water, and with making major land management decisions, primarily related to shorelines and wetlands.
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