Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1180
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/14/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism,
       and Economic Development Appropriations (Latvala) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 2379 and 2380
    4  insert:
    5         (7) The governing board or department shall encourage the
    6  use of new, innovative, and alternative technologies to achieve
    7  water quality or flood protection objectives. Such efforts shall
    8  include the establishment of a program to expedite the
    9  evaluation of the effectiveness of new, innovative, and
   10  alternative technologies and the department shall maintain a
   11  list of qualified products, processes, and technologies that may
   12  be used statewide to achieve water quality or flood protection
   13  objectives. The program shall, to the extent practicable, use
   14  new, innovative, and alternative technologies to achieve a
   15  balance between the expenditure of public funds for stormwater
   16  treatment for state transportation projects and facilities and
   17  the treatment objectives to be achieved.
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   20  And the title is amended as follows:
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   22         Delete line 177
   23  and insert:
   24         department to adopt rules; requiring the water
   25         management districts or department to encourage state
   26         entities to use new, innovative, and alternative
   27         technologies to achieve water quality or flood
   28         protection objectives; requiring a program to expedite
   29         the evaluation of the effectiveness of new,
   30         innovative, and alternative technologies; requiring
   31         the department to maintain a certain list to be used
   32         statewide to achieve water quality or flood protection
   33         objectives; directing that the program, to the extent
   34         practicable, balance the expenditure of public funds
   35         for stormwater treatment for state transportation
   36         projects and facilities and the treatment objectives
   37         to be achieved; amending s. 373.4137, F.S.;