Senate Bill sb1576c1

    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 1576

    By the Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
    Appropriations; and Senator Fasano




    606-2237-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the funding of dredging

  3         projects; creating s. 311.22, F.S.;

  4         establishing a program to provide matching

  5         funds for dredging projects in eligible

  6         counties; requiring that funds appropriated

  7         under the program be used for certain projects;

  8         requiring that the Florida Seaport

  9         Transportation and Economic Development Council

10         adopt rules for evaluating the dredging

11         projects; providing criteria for the rules;

12         providing for a project-review process by the

13         Department of Community Affairs, the Department

14         of Transportation, and the Office of Tourism,

15         Trade, and Economic Development; providing an

16         effective date.

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

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20         Section 1.  Section 311.22, Florida Statutes, is

21  created to read:

22         311.22  Additional authorization for funding certain

23  dredging projects.--

24         (1)  The Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic

25  Development Council shall establish a program to fund dredging

26  projects in counties having a population of fewer than 300,000

27  according to the last official census. Funds made available

28  under this program may be used to fund approved projects for

29  the dredging or deepening of channels, turning basins, or

30  harbors on a 50-50 matching basis with any port authority, as

31  such term is defined in s. 315.02(2), which complies with the

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    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 1576
    606-2237-05




 1  permitting requirements in part IV of chapter 373 and the

 2  local financial management and reporting provisions of part

 3  III of chapter 218.

 4         (2)  The council shall adopt rules for evaluating the

 5  projects that may be funded pursuant to this section. The

 6  rules must provide criteria for evaluating the economic

 7  benefit of the project. The rules must include the creation of

 8  an administrative review process by the council which is

 9  similar to the process contained in ss. 311.09(5)-(12), and

10  provide for a review by the Department of Community Affairs,

11  the Department of Transportation, and the Office of Tourism,

12  Trade, and Economic Development of all projects submitted for

13  funding under this section.

14         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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16          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
17                         Senate Bill 1576

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19  This committee substitute for Senate Bill 1576 incorporated a
    technical amendment adopted by the Commerce and Consumer
20  Services Committee correcting a statutory reference related to
    the permitting requirements for small port dredging projects.
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