​Standards, Guidelines, Specifications and Templates


The DEP Information Technology (IT) Standards Library contains IT standards, guidelines, technical environment specifications and templates in use at DEP.   

  • Standards (STD): a prescribed procedure, approach, solution, methodology, product or protocol that must be followed. DEP IT standards are applicable agency-wide and may address application development and implementation, project management, operations and systems or security standards.  All DEP IT standards are implemented under the umbrella of DEP Directives 370 and 390.   
  • Guidance Documents (GDE): reference and support material to help users apply or meet a standard.  While guidance documents are not required to be followed, doing so can help insure that the standard requirements are met for a specific standard subject-area.
  • Technical Environment Specifications (SPC):  documented details about the DEP computing environment. A technical environment specification may be a diagram, schematic or textual description of some aspect of the DEP computing environment. 
  • Templates (TMP):  provided to enable users to carry-out some aspect of a standard. 

IT Standards Library

File Name Document Title Document Description Revision Date File Size
TMP-11022201.1.0 Application Development Standards This document provides guidelines for general standards and style conventions. 6/18/2026 248 KB
GDE-11051301.1.0 Portal Authentication Filter:  Quick Start Guide A quick-start tutorial on the use of the DEP Portal Authentication Filter.  5/13/2011 72.89 KB
STD-07092501.4.0 Logical Data Modeling Standards The standard contains requirements for Logical Data Models at DEP. 4/21/2016 144.69 KB
STD-09061805.2.0 Physical Data Modeling Standard This document specifies DEP's Physical Data Modeling Standard and applies to all database schema development at DEP.   4/21/2016 175.95 KB
STD-09061809.1.2 Transition to Operations Standard This standard specifies the necessary information to successfully transition an application from development to operations. 7/15/2011 59.16 KB
STD-09061811.1.1 GIS Location Data Standard This document specifies DEP's Geographic Information Systems Location Data Standard and applies to all database schema development at DEP. 7/31/2014 82.47 KB
STD-09061814.1.0 GIS Development Standard This standard contains the DEP's requirements for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software development standard.  6/18/2009 60.22 KB
STD-14121501.2.0 Database Object Coding Standard This document specifies DEP's Database Object Coding Standards. 9/2/2015 73.02 KB
TMP-09061801.1.0 Impact Assessment Summary Template Use this template to complete an Impact Assessment Summary, which is a required element of the JEE Software Development Environment Standard. 6/18/2009 58.95 KB
TMP-09061802.3.0 Database Migration Package Template Use this template for all applications that require database setup. 7/6/2016 176.2 KB
TMP-10040101.3.0_0 Application Migration Package Template Use this template for all JEE applications that require Beta and Production Middle Tier Application Server setup, according to the JEE Software Development Environment Standard.     11/24/2025 75.45 KB

* Certain standards are only accessible by DEP employees.

File Name Document Title Document Description Revision Date File Size
STD-170123.1.0 Accessibility Standard for Electronic Document Deliverables This document specifies the DEP accessibility requirements for Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (pdf) electronic document deliverables provided by vendors as part of an IT contracted activity. 1/23/2017 699.85 KB
STD-09052701.2.2 Project Management Standard for Contractor Managed Projects This standard contains project management requirements for projects that are being managed solely by consulting firms. 4/15/2020 252.93 KB
STD-11061801.2.1 Project Management Standard for DEP-Managed Projects * This standard contains project management requirements for projects that are managed by DEP. 4/15/2020 277 KB
STD-26021001.1.0 FDEP OTIS Change Control Process The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Change Control process. 2/10/2026 465 KB

* Certain standards are only accessible by DEP employees.

File Name Document Title Document Description Revision Date File Size
SPC-09061802.2.0 IT Infrastructure Environment Specification This document specifies the enterprise information technology products currently supported at DEP. 6/15/2017 58.85 KB
STD –10091501.2.1 Website Development and Usage Standard * This document outlines DEP's Web Usage and Development Standards for development, management, maintenance and publication of DEP Websites and the permissions to access the servers housing those websites. 11/22/2017 1.19 MB
STD-09061813.1.0 Application Security Standard * This document specifies minimum security requirements for all software applications deployed in the DEP environment, whether those applications are developed internally or by external vendors. This standard also applies to commercial “off-the-shelf” software products. 6/18/2009 64.5 KB
STD-10021617.2.1 SharePoint Development and Usage Standard * This document specifies the DEP SharePoint standard for creating, managing and maintaining SharePoint sites at DEP. 3/16/2016 999 KB

* Certain standards are only accessible by DEP employees.

Last Modified: Tuesday, Jul 07, 2026 - 11:52am