Senate Bill 0316

    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 316

    By Senator Kirkpatrick





    5-484-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to land reclamation; amending

  3         s. 378.601, F.S.; exempting specified heavy

  4         mineral mining operations from requirements for

  5         development-of-regional-impact review;

  6         providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Subsection (5) of section 378.601, Florida

11  Statutes, is amended to read:

12         378.601  Heavy minerals.--

13         (5)  Any heavy mineral mining operation which annually

14  mines less than 500 acres and whose proposed consumption of

15  water is 3 million gallons per day or less shall not be

16  required to undergo development of regional impact review

17  pursuant to s. 380.06, provided permits and plan approvals

18  pursuant to either this section and part IV of chapter 373, or

19  s. 378.901, are issued.  This subsection applies only in the

20  following circumstances:

21         (a)  Mining is conducted in counties where the operator

22  has conducted heavy mineral mining activities prior to March

23  1, 1997; and

24         (b)  The operator of the heavy mineral mining operation

25  has executed a developer agreement pursuant to s. 380.032 or

26  has received a development order under s. 380.06(15) as of

27  March 1, 1997. Lands mined pursuant to this section need not

28  be the subject of the developer agreement or development

29  order.

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

31  law.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                   SB 316
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  3    Exempts specified heavy mineral mining operations from
      the requirements for development-of-regional-impact
  4    review.

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