Senate Bill sb0392c1

    Florida Senate - 2005                            CS for SB 392

    By the Committee on General Government Appropriations; and
    Senator Clary




    601-1700A-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Water Quality Assurance

  3         Trust Fund; amending s. 376.307, F.S.;

  4         authorizing the Department of Environmental

  5         Protection to use certain funds for brownfield

  6         activities; providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (1) of

11  section 376.307, Florida Statutes, to read:

12         376.307  Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund.--

13         (1)  The Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund is intended

14  to serve as a broad-based fund for use in responding to

15  incidents of contamination that pose a serious danger to the

16  quality of groundwater and surface water resources or

17  otherwise pose a serious danger to the public health, safety,

18  or welfare. Moneys in this fund may be used:

19         (f)  For activities by the department to administer

20  brownfield sites.

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

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23          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
24                         Senate Bill 392

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26  Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 392 expands the use of
    the Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund in the Department of
27  Environmental Protection to include funding to administer and
    regulate Brownfield sites.
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