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HOUSE AMENDMENT
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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Representative(s) Machek offered the following:
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17 Section 13. Section 373.2515, Florida Statutes, is
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19 373.2515 Permitting requirements for alternative water
20 facilities and electric power plants.--
21 (1) The Legislature finds that the recent increase in
22 proposed electric power plants that are not subject to the
23 regulatory review requirements of the Florida Electrical Power
24 Plant Siting Act creates both potential problems and water
25 supply opportunities. The continued proliferation of inland
26 plants may result in environmental and growth management
27 problems for the counties in which they are located and can
28 affect the patterns of urban development and the demands on
29 water resources if improperly located and inadequately
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31 (2)(a) Electric power plants of any generating
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1 technology are encouraged to locate in coastal counties where
2 they can be colocated with reverse osmosis facilities or other
3 similar technologies to desalinate water resources to help
4 meet potable water supply needs. Entities with existing
5 electric power plant sites located in coastal counties are
6 encouraged to evaluate modifications, expansions, or additions
7 that would allow the colocation of reverse osmosis or other
8 similar technologies to desalinate water resources to help
9 meet potable water supply needs.
10 (b) Reverse osmosis facilities or other similar
11 desalination technologies that are proposed to be colocated
12 with electric power plants are eligible to receive cooperative
13 funding assistance from water management districts created
14 under chapter 373 that have cooperative funding assistance
15 programs for activities designed to promote alternative water
16 supplies. The processing of all necessary permits, licenses,
17 or other approvals for such colocated facilities by all local
18 governments, water management districts, agencies, boards, or
19 commissions with regulatory jurisdiction over the project
20 shall be afforded priority and handled in an expedited manner.
21 Such colocated facilities shall be deemed to be in the public
22 interest and consistent with any adopted local government
23 comprehensive plan, regional policy plan, and state
24 comprehensive plan.
25 (3) Notwithstanding other permitting requirements
26 required by law, construction permit applications for a new
27 simple cycle turbine electric plant unrelated to an existing
28 electric power plant site located anywhere within the interior
29 counties immediately contiguous to the most impacted area
30 within the Eastern Tampa Bay water caution area must
31 demonstrate that the sole source of its cooling water will be
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1 provided by the reuse of reclaimed wastewater or other
2 nonpotable water source in order to ensure protection of
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7 And the title is amended as follows:
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11 creating s. 373.2515, F.S.; establishing
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