HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 633

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

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11  The Committee on State Administration offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14  Remove everything after the enacting clause

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17         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 373.042, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         373.042  Minimum flows and levels.--

20         (2)  By July 1, 1996, the Southwest Florida Water

21  Management District shall amend and submit to the department

22  for review and approval its priority list for the

23  establishment of minimum flows and levels and delineating the

24  order in which the governing board shall establish the minimum

25  flows and levels for surface watercourses, aquifers, and

26  surface water in the counties of Hillsborough, Pasco, and

27  Pinellas. By November 15, 1997, and annually thereafter, each

28  water management district shall submit to the department for

29  review and approval a priority list and schedule for the

30  establishment of minimum flows and levels for surface

31  watercourses, aquifers, and surface waters within the

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  1  district.  The priority list shall also identify those water

  2  bodies for which the district will voluntarily undertake

  3  independent scientific peer review.  By January 1, 1998, and

  4  annually thereafter, each water management district shall

  5  publish its approved priority list and schedule in the Florida

  6  Administrative Weekly. The priority list shall be based upon

  7  the importance of the waters to the state or region and the

  8  existence of or potential for significant harm to the water

  9  resources or ecology of the state or region, and shall include

10  those waters which are experiencing or may reasonably be

11  expected to experience adverse impacts.  By January 1, 2003,

12  each water management district's priority list and schedule

13  shall include all first magnitude springs, and all second

14  magnitude springs within state or federally owned lands

15  purchased for conservation purposes.  The specific schedule

16  for establishment of spring minimum flows and levels shall be

17  commensurate with the existing or potential threat to spring

18  flow from consumptive uses. Springs within the Suwannee River

19  Water Management District, or second magnitude springs in

20  other areas of the state, need not be included on the priority

21  list if the water management district submits a report to the

22  Department of Environmental Protection demonstrating that

23  adverse impacts are not now occurring nor are reasonably

24  expected to occur from consumptive uses during the next 20

25  years. The priority list and schedule shall not be subject to

26  any proceeding pursuant to chapter 120.  Except as provided in

27  subsection (3), the development of a priority list and

28  compliance with the schedule for the establishment of minimum

29  flows and levels pursuant to this subsection shall satisfy the

30  requirements of subsection (1).

31         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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  2  And the title is amended as follows:

  3         On page 1, line 2 through 8,

  4  remove:  all of said lines

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  7         An act relating to establishing minimum flows

  8         and levels for springs; amending s. 373.042,

  9         F.S.; providing a schedule for completing

10         establishment of minimum flows and levels;

11         providing an exception; providing an effective

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