Senate Bill sb1656

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SM 1656

    By Senator Smith





    14-1544-03

  1                     Senate Memorial No. ____

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging the Congress to provide for the

  4         conveyance of the National Forest lands

  5         underlying the George Kirkpatrick Dam on the

  6         Ocklawaha River near Palatka, Florida, and

  7         related lands to the State of Florida.

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  9         WHEREAS, through the Water Resources Act of 1990 the

10  United States Congress deauthorized the Cross Florida Barge

11  Canal project located between the Gulf of Mexico and the

12  Atlantic Ocean, and

13         WHEREAS, this act also transferred to the State of

14  Florida all lands and interest in lands acquired and

15  facilities completed for the project, and

16         WHEREAS, the State of Florida has established and

17  maintained a greenway corridor that is open to the public for

18  compatible recreation and conservation activities, and

19         WHEREAS, in order to continue these efforts it has

20  become necessary to consolidate and collect these lands, NOW,

21  THEREFORE,

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23  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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25         That the Congress of the United States is requested to

26  provide for the conveyance to the State of Florida of the

27  National Forest lands underlying the George Kirkpatrick Dam on

28  the Ocklawaha River near Palatka, Florida, and the National

29  Forest lands lying below the 21-feet National Geodetic

30  Vertical Datum (NGVD) underlying the Rodman Reservoir formed

31  by such dam and National Forest Service tract #C-615.

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SM 1656
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  1         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

  2  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

  3  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

  4  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

  5  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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