Senate Bill sb2352c1

    Florida Senate - 2002                           CS for SB 2352

    By the Committee on Natural Resources; and Senator Silver





    312-2196-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to brownfield site remediation;

  3         amending s. 376.80, F.S.; providing for the use

  4         of certain unencumbered, undisbursed funds from

  5         the Quick-Response Training Program and

  6         brownfield redevelopment bonus refunds;

  7         providing for grants to designated areas;

  8         providing an effective date.

  9

10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

11

12         Section 1.  Subsection (13) is added to section 376.80,

13  Florida Statutes, to read:

14         376.80  Brownfield program administration process.--

15         (13)  Annually, any unencumbered funds remaining

16  undisbursed on or at the close of the fiscal year on June 30,

17  from the Quick-Response Training Program and from brownfield

18  redevelopment bonus refunds shall be used for grants to fund

19  expenses relating to the assessment and remediation of

20  brownfield sites within areas designated pursuant to this

21  section, for those jurisdictions that have United States

22  Environmental Protection Agency brownfield pilot projects

23  designated prior to July 1, 1997.  Grants shall be distributed

24  to eligible pilot projects under this section on a pro rata

25  basis in an amount not to exceed $500,000 per pilot project,

26  provided there is a total of at least $250,000 to disburse.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

28  law.

29

30

31

                                  1

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2002                           CS for SB 2352
    312-2196-02




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                         Senate Bill 2352

  3

  4  The committee substitute provides that annually any
    unencumbered funds remaining undisbursed on or at the close of
  5  the fiscal year on June 30 from the Quick-Response Training
    Program and from Brownfield Redevelopment Bonus Refunds are to
  6  be used for grants to fund expenses relating to the assessment
    and remediation of brownfield site in designated brownfield
  7  areas. The grants are to be distributed to eligible
    jurisdictions on a pro-rata basis in an amount not to exceed
  8  $500,000 per pilot project, provided there is a total of at
    least $250,000 to disburse .
  9
    Deleted from the bill are provisions that would have allowed
10  funds appropriated for clean up of state-owned lands that
    unencumbered and undisbursed to be used for grants to certain
11  brownfield areas.

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

                                  2

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.