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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1387

    Amendment No. 002 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Transportation offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 3, of the bill between lines 14 and 15,

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17         Section 3.  Section 348.0008 Florida Statutes, is

18  amended to read:

19         348.0008  Acquisition of lands and property.--

20         (1)  For the purposes of the Florida Expressway

21  Authority Act, an expressway authority may acquire such

22  rights, title or interest in private or public property and

23  such property rights, including easements, rights of access,

24  air, view, and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or

25  condemnation by eminent domain proceedings, as the authority

26  may deem necessary for any of the purposes of the Florida

27  Expressway Authority Act, including, but not limited to, any

28  lands reasonably necessary for securing applicable permits,

29  areas necessary for management of access, borrow pits,

30  drainage ditches, water retention areas, rest areas,

31  replacement access for landowners whose access is impaired due

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  1  to the construction of an expressway system, and replacement

  2  rights-of-way for relocated rail and utility facilities; for

  3  existing, proposed, or anticipated transportation facilities

  4  on the expressway system or in a transportation corridor

  5  designated by the authority; or for the purposes of screening,

  6  relocation, removal, or disposal of junkyards and scrap metal

  7  processing facilities.  The authority may also condemn any

  8  material and property necessary for such purposes.

  9         (2)  An authority and its authorized agents,

10  contractors and employees are authorized to enter upon any

11  lands, waters, and premises upon giving reasonable notice to

12  the landowner, for the purpose of making surveys, soundings,

13  drillings, appraisals, environmental assessments including

14  phase I and phase II environmental surveys, archaeological

15  assessments, and such other examinations as are necessary for

16  the acquisition of private or public property and property

17  rights, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by

18  gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation by eminent domain

19  proceedings or as are necessary for the authority to perform

20  its duties and functions; and any such entry shall not be

21  deemed a trespass or an entry that would constitute a taking

22  in an eminent domain proceeding.  An expressway authority

23  shall make reimbursement for any actual damage to such lands,

24  water, and premises as a result of such activities.

25         (2)(3)  The right of eminent domain conferred by the

26  Florida Expressway Authority Act must be exercised by each

27  authority in the manner provided by law.

28         (3)(4)  When an authority acquires property for an

29  expressway system or in a transportation corridor as defined

30  in s. 334.03, it is not subject to any liability imposed by

31  chapter 376 or chapter 403 for preexisting soil or groundwater

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  1  contamination due solely to its ownership. This subsection

  2  does not affect the rights or liabilities of any past or

  3  future owners of the acquired property nor does it affect the

  4  liability of any governmental entity for the results of its

  5  actions which create or exacerbate a pollution source. An

  6  authority and the Department of Environmental Protection may

  7  enter into interagency agreements for the performance,

  8  funding, and reimbursement of the investigative and remedial

  9  acts necessary for property acquired by the authority.

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13  And the title is amended as follows:

14         On page 1, line 10, after "jurisdictions;"

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17         amending section 348.0008, F.S.; allowing

18         expressway authorities to acquire less-than-fee

19         interests in land; allowing expressway

20         authorities and their agents or employees

21         reasonable access to private property;

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