House Bill 2067

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 2067

        By the Committee on Water & Resource Management and
    Representatives Alexander, Boyd, Maygarden, Peaden, Melvin, J.
    Miller, Kilmer, Bense, Betancourt, Brummer, Kelly, Waters,
    Merchant, Cantens, K. Smith and Ogles



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the interim wetlands

  3         permitting program for the Northwest Florida

  4         Water Management District; amending s.

  5         373.4145, F.S.; postponing scheduled July 1,

  6         1999, repeal of certain provisions to a

  7         specified date; directing the Northwest Florida

  8         Water Management District and the Department of

  9         Environmental Protection to develop a plan to

10         implement an environmental resource permitting

11         program within the jurisdiction of the district

12         by a specified date; requiring reports to the

13         Legislature on the progress of the planning

14         efforts; providing an effective date.

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

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18         Section 1.  Subsection (6) of section 373.4145, Florida

19  Statutes, is amended and subsection (7) is added to said

20  section, to read:

21         373.4145  Interim part IV permitting program for the

22  Northwest Florida Water Management District.--

23         (6)  Subsections (1), (2), (3), and (4) shall be

24  repealed effective July 1, 2003 1999.

25         (7)(a)  The department and the Northwest Florida Water

26  Management District are directed to begin developing a plan by

27  which the permitting for activities proposed in surface waters

28  and wetlands shall fully comply with the provisions of part IV

29  of chapter 373, beginning July 1, 2003.  The plan also shall

30  address the division of environmental resource permitting

31  responsibilities between the department and the Northwest

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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 2067

    195-830-99






  1  Florida Water Management District; the methodology of

  2  delineating wetlands in the Northwest Florida Water Management

  3  District; authority of the Northwest Florida Water Management

  4  District to implement federal permitting programs related to

  5  activities in surface waters and wetlands; and the chapter 70

  6  implications of implementing the provisions of part IV of

  7  chapter 373 within the jurisdiction of the Northwest Florida

  8  Water Management District.

  9         (b)  The department and Northwest Florida Water

10  Management District shall jointly prepare an interim report on

11  their progress in developing the aforementioned plan, to be

12  presented March 1, 2001 to the Governor, the President of the

13  Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the

14  chairs of the relevant substantive and fiscal committees.  The

15  department and district shall present a final report on March

16  1, 2003.

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

18  law.

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21                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Postpones scheduled July 1, 1999, repeal of certain
23    provisions of the interim wetlands permitting program for
      the Northwest Florida Water Management District under pt.
24    IV of ch. 373, until July 1, 2003. Directs the district
      and the Department of Environmental Protection to develop
25    a plan for an environmental resource permitting program
      within the jurisdiction of the district by July 1, 2003.
26    Requires reports to the Governor and Legislature.

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