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Broward County Resilient Environment Department, Environmental Permitting Division (EPD)

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Broward County Resilient Environment Department, Environmental Permitting Division (EPD) issues 3 permits we publish for Broward County, last verified 2026-09-28. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Hazardous Materials Licenseonly if it applies to youBroward County Resilient Environment Department, Environmental Permitting Division (EPD)Broward County Code §27-356 cross-references a separately adopted Environmental Permitting Division fee schedule for this license rather than stating a dollar figure directly in the exemption section, §27-354. Contact the Resilient Environment Department's Environmental Permitting Division for the amount currently set by that schedule.confirm the license term with the issuing division2026-09-28
Air Quality License (surface coating / paint booth)only if it applies to youBroward County Resilient Environment Department, Environmental Permitting Division (EPD)Broward County Code Ch. 27, Art. IV, §§27-175 and 27-176 govern licensing for surface-coating operations; the fee is set on EPD's air-licensing fee schedule. Contact the Resilient Environment Department's Environmental Permitting Division, Air Licensing and Permitting program, for the current fee.confirm the license term with the issuing division2026-09-28
Storage Tank Facility Licenseonly if it applies to youBroward County Resilient Environment Department, Environmental Permitting Division (EPD)Broward County Code Ch. 27, Art. X, §27-306 governs this license but does not itself state a dollar figure. Contact the Resilient Environment Department's Environmental Permitting Division for the current fee.confirm the license term with the issuing division2026-09-28

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

Hazardous Materials License

A business that uses, stores, handles or generates 25 gallons or more per month, in aggregate, of hazardous materials at a facility needs a Hazardous Materials License from the Environmental Permitting Division (EPD), countywide, reaching every municipality as well as the unincorporated area since EPD's environmental permitting jurisdiction is not limited to unincorporated Broward the way zoning is. This threshold-based requirement reaches an auto-repair shop's solvents and waste, a veterinary clinic's chemicals, a retail store's bulk chemical storage, and conditionally a restaurant using large volumes of sanitizer or degreaser — it is not universal across those industries, only triggered once the 25-gallon-per-month threshold is crossed. Broward's environmental agency is branded 'Resilient Environment Department,' housing the Environmental Permitting Division (EPD) — distinct from Miami-Dade's DERM branding, and superseding the older 'EPGMD' name still seen on some older documents. The license fee itself is set by a separately adopted EPD fee schedule referenced in §27-356 rather than stated as a dollar figure in the code; contact EPD for the current amount.

Air Quality License (surface coating / paint booth)

A body/paint shop applying surface coatings is exempt from this county Air Quality License only if its total use of coatings that are more than 5% VOC by volume is 6 gallons per day or less, averaged monthly; above that threshold the shop needs a license from EPD's Air Licensing and Permitting program under §§27-175 and 27-176. A typical small auto-body paint booth plausibly uses more than 6 gallons of VOC-containing coating a day and would likely be captured by this licensing requirement rather than falling under the exemption, so an auto-body shop should not assume it qualifies for the exemption without checking its actual coating volume. Contact EPD's Air Licensing and Permitting program for the current license fee before applying.

Storage Tank Facility License

A facility with an above-ground storage tank holding more than 550 gallons, or an underground storage tank holding more than 110 gallons, of a regulated substance needs a Storage Tank Facility License from EPD, countywide. This most often reaches an auto-repair shop's waste-oil or fuel tanks, and can conditionally reach a contractor's yard fuel tanks or, more rarely, a restaurant's on-site fuel storage. A new facility or a facility modification requires four sets of plans sealed by a Florida-registered professional engineer. The license fee is not stated as a dollar figure in §27-306 itself; confirm the current fee with EPD before budgeting for a new tank installation or modification.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Broward County
Phone
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Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.

  1. Air Licensing and PermittingBroward County Resilient Environment Department — EPD · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  2. Broward County Code of OrdinancesMunicode / Broward County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  3. Hazardous Materials ProgramBroward County Resilient Environment Department — EPD · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  4. Storage Tank ProgramBroward County Resilient Environment Department — EPD · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28

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