Senate Bill sb2802c1

    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 2802

    By the Committee on Natural Resources; and Senator Dockery





    312-2494-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the delegation of general

  3         permit authority for piers or associated

  4         structures; amending s. 403.814, F.S.;

  5         prohibiting the Department of Environmental

  6         Protection from delegating general permit

  7         authority to the water management districts for

  8         the construction, extension, or removal of

  9         piers or associated structures; reassigning to

10         the department the authority to act on pending

11         applications for a permit; rescinding a prior

12         delegation of authority by the department to

13         the districts; providing an effective date.

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

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17         Section 1.  Subsection (4) of section 403.814, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         403.814  General permits; delegation.--

20         (4)  The department is authorized to delegate any of

21  its general permit authority to the district offices of the

22  department or to water management districts. However, the

23  department may not delegate authority to issue a general

24  permit for construction, extension, or removal of a pier or

25  associated structures to any water management district.  Any

26  general permit application for the construction, extension, or

27  removal of a pier or associated structures which is pending in

28  any water management district on July 1, 2004, is reassigned

29  to the department and any authority to issue such general

30  permits delegated to any water management district prior to

31  July 1, 2004, is rescinded.

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    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 2802
    312-2494-04




 1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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 3          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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    delegation rescission to include all of the water management
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