House Bill 9007

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HR 9007

        By Representative Crady






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution declaring 1999 to be the Year of

  3         the Soil Survey Centennial.

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  5         WHEREAS, soil is an important natural resource that is

  6  limited, fragile, alive, and diverse, and has several

  7  important functions, including food production and carbon

  8  sequestration, making it a national resource of critical

  9  importance that is often taken for granted or overlooked, and

10         WHEREAS, inasmuch as understanding soil is vital to

11  good management and to building resources for the future, it

12  is a wise investment to maintain and improve our knowledge of

13  soils, and

14         WHEREAS, each state in the United States has selected a

15  state soil, with 15 states establishing their state soil by

16  legislation, including Florida, which established Myakka fine

17  sand as its official state soil in 1989, and

18         WHEREAS, the first United States soil survey operations

19  began in the summer of 1899, and

20         WHEREAS, soil surveys provide an unbiased,

21  science-based, technical foundation for federal legislation

22  such as the Farm Bill, and for state and federal legislation

23  on a wide range of issues such as taxation, septic tank

24  absorption fields, wetlands, land application of waste, and

25  identification of potential environmental problem areas, thus

26  having tremendous public value, and

27         WHEREAS, the Florida Legislature supported and funded

28  the Accelerated Soil Survey of Florida for some 20 years, and

29         WHEREAS, in 1999 the soil survey program will be 100

30  years old, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HR 9007

    209-221-99






  1  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  2  Florida:

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  4         That 1999 is declared to be the Year of the Soil Survey

  5  Centennial.

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