SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 986

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senators Forman and Gutman moved the following amendment to

12  amendment (500232):

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 20, between lines 5 and 6,

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18         Section 10.  Based on the conservation, recreational,

19  land acquisition, and ecological objectives of this state and

20  the legislatively declared public interest in acquiring the

21  lands in the East Everglades Buffer Strip and Pennsuco

22  wetlands, the South Florida Water Management District is

23  directed to pursue the immediate acquisition of Tracts Nos.

24  304-974, 304-966, 300-919, and 304-968 in Cell No. 26, Dade

25  County, East Everglades Buffer Strip. The South Florida Water

26  Management District is authorized to purchase such properties

27  at a price equal to or less than the average of the two most

28  recent M.A.I. appraisals. If negotiations do not result in the

29  execution of mutually binding sales contracts for all such

30  properties, the district shall, by August 1, 1998, initiate

31  condemnation proceedings in accordance with the quick-take

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 986

    Amendment No.    





 1  provisions of chapters 73 and 74, Florida Statutes, on such

 2  parcels. Any acquisition or condemnation value resulting from

 3  this section is inadmissible and irrelevant with respect to

 4  any other acquisition in the project area or to calculating

 5  any adjustment in the fee specified in section 373.4139(9),

 6  Florida Statutes.

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 8  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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12  And the title is amended as follows:

13         On page 23, line 12, after the first semicolon

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16         providing for the acquisition of lands in the

17         East Everglades Buffer Strip and Pennsuco

18         wetlands;

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