CN-370000-WM943.pdf

This document is a state contract (DEP Contract No. WM943) between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), located in Tallahassee, Florida, and the University of Florida, located in Gainesville, Florida. The contract is funded in part by a Section 319 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and involves the development of a Florida statewide stressor identification model.

The contract is a cost-reimbursement, task assignment-based agreement with a five-year term, renewable for up to three additional years. The total project budget is $172,300, spread across fiscal years 2007-2010, with tasks including analysis of current data sets, evaluation of stressor indices, identification of conceptual models, collection of additional data, and development and validation of a stressor identification model. The primary objective is to create a comprehensive environmental management tool that identifies the most significant human non-point stressors affecting Florida's water quality by analyzing physical, chemical, and biological data using multivariate statistical methods.