SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1246
Amendment No. 1 Barcode 121126
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 The Committee on Comprehensive Planning, Local and Military
12 Affairs recommended the following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 1. Section 258.166, Florida Statutes, is
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20 258.166 North Florida State Reserve designated.--There
21 is designated and established a state reserve to be known as
22 North Florida State Reserve, in Marion and Putnam counties,
23 which shall include all state-owned lands within the
24 floodplain of the Oklawaha River and those hereafter acquired
25 by the state from Eureka Dam in Marion County to Buckman Lock
26 in Putnam County. Those lands are deemed and held to be a
27 state reserve, under the supervision of the Division of
28 Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental
29 Protection. The division is charged with the duty of providing
30 for the development of multipurpose recreational opportunities
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1 beautification of the North Florida State Reserve including
2 all those dams, locks, and other structures transferred by the
3 federal government to the state.
4 (1) Public hunting is allowed in the state reserve as
5 authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
6 (2) The Division of State Lands of the Department of
7 Environmental Protection may acquire in the name of the Board
8 of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund any
9 additional property adjacent or contiguous to the North
10 Florida State Reserve, from private owners or from the United
11 States Government for improved management and recreational
12 opportunities.
13 (3) The Division of State Lands shall identify,
14 contact, and inform all property owners who entered into
15 easements located within the taking line of the Rodman
16 Reservoir of the designation of this area as a state reserve.
17 (4) By January 1, 2002, the Division of State Lands
18 shall submit a report to the Executive Office of the Governor,
19 the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
20 Representatives which:
21 (a) Identifies the entities that have an easement
22 within the taking line of the reservoir.
23 (b) Indicates whether the holder of the easement is
24 willing to sell the easement.
25 (c) Estimates the cost of acquiring the easements.
26 (d) Identifies any additional issues resulting from
27 this designation.
28 Section 2. Subject to appropriations, the Department
29 of Environmental Protection is authorized and directed to
30 construct restroom facilities, a paved parking lot, small
31 spectator bleachers, boat ramps, and a covered pavilion by
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1 that part of Rodman Reservoir which is located on the eastern
2 shore of Lake Oklawaha, between the barge canal channel and
3 the George Kirkpatrick Dam, on the southwest quarter of
4 Section 37, Township 11 South, Range 25. Funds provided in the
5 General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2001-2002 shall be
6 used for construction as directed in this section regardless
7 of whether the George Kirkpatrick Dam remains in place, and
8 moneys so appropriated may be used only for the purposes
9 expressed in this section. Furthermore, funds made available
10 in the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2001-2002
11 for sediment management and studies at the Rodman Reservoir
12 may be expended only for such purposes if funds made available
13 in the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2001-2002
14 for the construction activities authorized in this section are
15 also expended.
16 Section 3. The sediment management or studies
17 authorized in section 2, and any appropriations related
18 thereto, may not be used or expended for the breeching of the
19 George Kirkpatrick Dam. Furthermore, any drawdowns necessary
20 to effectuate the sediment management or studies must be
21 minimized to the greatest extent possible and follow
22 prescribed procedures for weed and water quality control, and
23 the level of the reservoir as it existed prior to any
24 drawdowns must be restored as expeditiously as possible.
25 Section 4. Nothing in this act abrogates the
26 provisions in s. 253,7829(6), Florida Statutes.
27 Section 5. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
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6 A bill to be entitled
7 An act relating to state reserves; creating s.
8 258.166, F.S.; establishing the North Florida
9 State Reserve; directing the Division of
10 Recreation and Parks of the Department of
11 Environmental Protection to develop
12 multipurpose recreational opportunities and
13 provide supervision of the area; allowing
14 public hunting; authorizing the Division of
15 State Lands to acquire adjacent or contiguous
16 property; requiring the Division of State Lands
17 to notify persons with easements in the area;
18 requiring a report; authorizing and directing
19 the construction of certain facilities, subject
20 to appropriations; providing limitations on
21 certain funds; clarifying that certain existing
22 law relating to state lands is not abrogated;
23 providing an effective date.
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