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Florida Senate - 1999 CS for SB 2038
By the Committee on Natural Resources and Senator Carlton
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to red tide research and
3 mitigation; establishing a Harmful-Algal-Bloom
4 Task Force; providing for task force membership
5 and duties; providing legislative intent;
6 providing program goals; providing an
7 appropriation; providing an effective date.
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9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11 Section 1. (1) There is established a
12 Harmful-Algal-Bloom Task Force for the purpose of determining
13 research, monitoring, control, and mitigation strategies for
14 red tide and other harmful algal blooms in Florida waters. The
15 Florida Marine Research Institute shall appoint to the task
16 force scientists, engineers, economists, members of citizen
17 groups, and members of government. The task force shall
18 determine research and monitoring priorities and control and
19 mitigation strategies and make recommendations to the Fish and
20 Wildlife Conservation Commission by October 1, 1999, for using
21 funds as provided in this act.
22 (2) The Harmful-Algal-Bloom Task Force shall:
23 (a) Review the status and adequacy of information for
24 monitoring physical, chemical, biological, economic, and
25 public health factors affecting harmful algal blooms in
26 Florida;
27 (b) Develop research and monitoring priorities for
28 harmful algal blooms in Florida, including detection,
29 prediction, mitigation, and control;
30 (c) Develop recommendations that can be implemented by
31 state and local governments to develop a response plan and to
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1 predict, mitigate, and control the effects of harmful algal
2 blooms; and
3 (d) Make recommendations to the department by October
4 1, 1999, for research, detection, monitoring, prediction,
5 mitigation, and control of harmful algal blooms in Florida.
6 (3) After the completion of the tasks specified in
7 subsection (2), the Harmful-Algal-Bloom Task Force may be
8 continued at the pleasure of the Florida Marine Research
9 Institute.
10 Section 2. (1)(a) The Florida Marine Research
11 Institute shall implement a program designed to increase the
12 knowledge of factors that control harmful algal blooms,
13 including red tide, and to gain knowledge to be used for the
14 early detection of factors precipitating harmful algal blooms
15 for accurate prediction of the extent and seriousness of
16 harmful algal blooms and for undertaking successful efforts to
17 control and mitigate the effects of harmful algal blooms.
18 (b) The Legislature intends that this program enhance
19 and address areas that are not adequately covered in the
20 cooperative federal-state program known as Ecology and
21 Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB-Florida), which
22 includes the University of South Florida, the Mote Marine
23 Laboratory, and the Florida Marine Research Institute.
24 (c) The goal of this program is to enable resource
25 managers to assess the potential for public health damage and
26 economic damage from a given bloom and to undertake control
27 and mitigation efforts through the development and application
28 of an integrated detection and prediction network for
29 monitoring and responding to the development and movement of
30 harmful algal blooms in Florida marine and estuarine waters.
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1 (2) A financial disbursement program is created within
2 the Florida Marine Research Institute to implement the
3 provisions of this act. Under the program, the institute shall
4 provide funding and technical assistance to government
5 agencies, research universities, coastal local governments,
6 and organizations with scientific and technical expertise for
7 the purposes of harmful-algal-bloom research, economic impact
8 study, monitoring, detection, control, and mitigation. The
9 program may be funded from state, federal, and private
10 contributions.
11 Section 3. There is hereby appropriated from the
12 General Revenue Fund to the Florida Marine Research Institute
13 for fiscal year 1999-2000 an additional sum of $3 million to
14 carry out the purposes of this act.
15 (1) From these funds $1 million shall be used for
16 continuation of the harmful-algal-bloom contracts let to the
17 Manatee Community College, the University of Florida, the
18 University of Miami, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
19 Administration, the United States Food and Drug
20 Administration, the St. Johns River Water Management District,
21 the Florida Department of Health, the Mote Marine Laboratory,
22 the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a citizens group
23 Solutions to Avoid Red Tide in fiscal year 1999-2000 in order
24 to bring these 10 studies to completion. These contracts
25 should promote state, federal, and private partnerships. No
26 more than $75,000 may be used by the Florida Marine Research
27 Institute for technical administration of these contracts. Up
28 to $50,000 shall be used by the institute to support the
29 travel and document-production costs of the
30 Harmful-Algal-Bloom Task Force.
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1 (2) From the remaining $2 million appropriated by this
2 section, $1 million shall be provided to Mote Marine
3 Laboratory and $1 million to the Florida Marine Research
4 Institute, to be used for a cooperative study of harmful algal
5 blooms to address areas of critical need.
6 (3) Contractual services procured under this section
7 are not subject to the provisions of section 287.057, Florida
8 Statutes.
9 Section 4. Rules are not required to implement this
10 act.
11 Section 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.
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13 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
14 SB 2038
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16 The committee substitute provides that the Harmful-Algal-Bloom
Task Force will be appointed by the Florida Marine Research
17 Institute instead of the Secretary of Environmental
Protection. Provides that the task force will make
18 recommendations to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission instead of the Department of Environmental
19 Protection. The task force may be continued at the pleasure of
the Florida Marine Research Institute.
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Provides that the federal-state program known as Ecology and
21 Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (OCOHAB-Florida) includes
the University of South Florida, the Mote Marine Laboratory,
22 and the Florida Marine Research Institute.
23 Deletes the provision that the Florida Marine Research
Institute is to expend certain funds and deletes the criteria
24 upon which certain contracts are to be awarded.
25 Provides that $1 million is to be used to continue certain
harmful-algal-bloom contracts that have been let.
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Contractual services procured under the provisions of this
27 bill are not subject to the provisions of s. 287.057, F.S.
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