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SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 2403, 2nd Eng.
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11 Senator Latvala moved the following amendment to amendment
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 15. Subsections (1) and (3) of section
19 373.1501, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
20 373.1501 South Florida Water Management District as
21 local sponsor.--
22 (1) As used in this section and s. 373.026(8), the
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24 (a) "C-111 Project" means the project identified in
25 the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project, Real
26 Estate Design Memorandum, Canal 111, South Dade County,
27 Florida.
28 (b) "Department" means the Department of Environmental
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30 (c) "District" means the South Florida Water
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1 (d) "Kissimmee River Restoration Project" means the
2 project identified in the Project Cooperation Agreement
3 between the United States Department of the Army and the South
4 Florida Water Management District dated March 22, 1994.
5 (e) "Pal-Mar Project" means the Pal-Mar (West Jupiter
6 Wetlands) lands identified in the Save Our Rivers 2000 Land
7 Acquisition and Management Plan approved by the South Florida
8 Water Management District on September 9, 1999, (Resolution
9 99-94).
10 (f)(e) "Project" means the Central and Southern
11 Florida Project.
12 (g)(f) "Project Component" means any structural or
13 operational change, resulting from the restudy, to the Central
14 and Southern Florida Project as it existed and was operated as
15 of January 1, 1999.
16 (h)(g) "Restudy" means the Comprehensive Review Study
17 of the Central and Southern Florida Project, for which federal
18 participation was authorized by the federal Water Resources
19 Development Acts of 1992 and 1996 together with related
20 Congressional resolutions and for which participation by the
21 South Florida Water Management District is authorized by this
22 section. The term includes all actions undertaken pursuant to
23 the aforementioned authorizations which will result in
24 recommendations for modifications or additions to the Central
25 and Southern Florida Project.
26 (i) "Southern Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed
27 Project" means the area described in the Critical Restoration
28 Project Contract C-9906 Southern Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem
29 Watershed Project Addition/Imperial River Flowway and approved
30 by the South Florida Water Management District on August 12,
31 1999.
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1 (j)(h) "Water Preserve Areas" means those areas
2 located only within Palm Beach and Broward counties that are
3 designated as Water Preserve Areas, as approved by the South
4 Florida Water Management District Governing Board on September
5 11, 1997, and shall also include all of those lands within
6 Cell II of the East Coast Buffer in Broward County as
7 delineated in the boundary survey prepared by Stoner and
8 Associates, Inc., dated January 31, 2000, SWFWMD #10953.
9 (k)(i) "Ten Mile Creek Project" means the Ten Mile
10 Creek Water Preserve Area identified in the Central and
11 Southern Florida Ecosystem Critical Project Letter Report
12 dated April 13, 1998.
13 (3) The Legislature declares that the Kissimmee River
14 Project, the Ten Mile Creek Project, the Water Preserve Areas,
15 the Southern Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed Project,
16 the Pal-Mar Project, and the C-111 Project are in the public
17 interest, for a public purpose, and necessary for the public
18 health and welfare. The governing board of the district is
19 empowered and authorized to acquire fee title or easement by
20 eminent domain for the limited purposes of implementing the
21 Kissimmee River Project, the Ten Mile Creek Project, the Water
22 Preserve Areas, the Southern Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem
23 Watershed Project, the Pal-Mar Project, and the C-111 Project.
24 Any acquisition of real property, including by eminent domain,
25 for those objectives constitutes a public purpose for which it
26 is in the public interest to expend public funds.
27 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, such
28 properties shall not be removed from the district's plan of
29 acquisition, and the use of state funds for these properties
30 is authorized. In the absence of willing sellers, any land
31 necessary for implementing the projects in this subsection
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1 shall be acquired in accordance with state condemnation law
2 pursuant to chapters 73 and 74.
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8 And the title is amended as follows:
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12 amending s. 373.1501, F.S.; providing
13 definitions; providing for acquisition of
14 certain land by eminent domain by the South
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