Senate Bill 1338

    Florida Senate - 1998                 SB 1338 (Corrected Copy)

    By Senator Latvala





    312-952A-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to rulemaking authority with

  3         respect to land acquisition (RAB); amending s.

  4         259.035, F.S.; authorizing the Land Acquisition

  5         and Management Advisory Council to establish

  6         multiple lists of projects selected for

  7         acquisition each year; providing an effective

  8         date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section

13  259.035, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

14         259.035  Advisory council; powers and duties.--

15         (2)(a)  The council shall, by the time of the first

16  board meeting in February of each year and at additional times

17  during the year as deemed necessary by the council, establish

18  or update a list of acquisition projects selected for purchase

19  pursuant to this chapter.  In scoring potential projects for

20  inclusion on the acquisition list, the council shall give

21  greater consideration to projects that can serve as corridors

22  between lands already in public ownership or under management

23  for conservation and recreational purposes.  Acquisition

24  projects shall be ranked, in order of priority, individually

25  as a single group or individually within up to 10 separate

26  groups. The council shall submit to the board of trustees,

27  together with its list of acquisition projects, a Conservation

28  and Recreation Lands report. For each project on an

29  acquisition list, the council shall include in its report the

30  stated purpose for acquiring the project, an identification of

31  the essential parcel or parcels within the project without

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    Florida Senate - 1998                 SB 1338 (Corrected Copy)
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  1  which the project cannot be properly managed, an

  2  identification of those projects or parcels within projects

  3  which should be acquired in fee simple or in other than fee

  4  simple, an explanation of the reasons why the council selected

  5  a particular acquisition technique, a management policy

  6  statement for the project, a management prospectus pursuant to

  7  s. 259.032(9)(b), an estimate of land value based on county

  8  tax assessed values, a map delineating project boundaries, a

  9  brief description of the important natural and cultural

10  resources to be protected, preacquisition planning and

11  budgeting, coordination with other public and nonprofit

12  public-lands acquisition programs, a preliminary statement of

13  the extent and nature of public use, an interim management

14  budget, and designation of a management agency or agencies.

15  The Department of Environmental Protection shall prepare the

16  information required by this section for each acquisition

17  project selected for purchase pursuant to this chapter. In

18  addition, the department shall prepare, by July 1 of each

19  year, an acquisition work plan for each project on the

20  acquisition list for which funds will be available for

21  acquisition during the fiscal year. The work plan need not

22  disclose any information that is required by this chapter or

23  chapter 253 to remain confidential.

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

25  law.

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28                          SENATE SUMMARY

29    Authorizes the Land Acquisition and Management Advisory
      Council to establish multiple lists of projects each
30    year.

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