Amendment
Bill No. 1090
Amendment No. 153527
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative(s) Stansel offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
4     On page 4, between lines 2 and 3,
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6insert:
7     Section 4.  Subsection (15) of section 373.414, Florida
8Statutes, is amended to read:
9     373.414  Additional criteria for activities in surface
10waters and wetlands.--
11     (15)  Activities associated with mining operations as
12defined by and subject to ss. 378.201-378.212 and 378.701-
13378.703 and included in a conceptual reclamation plan or
14modification application submitted prior to July 1, 1996, shall
15continue to be reviewed under the rules of the department
16adopted pursuant to ss. 403.91-403.929, 1984 Supplement to the
17Florida Statutes 1983, as amended, the rules of the water
18management districts under this part, and interagency
19agreements, in effect on January 1, 1993. Such activities shall
20be exempt from rules adopted pursuant to subsection (9) and the
21statewide methodology ratified pursuant to s. 373.4211. As of
22January 1, 1994, such activities may be issued permits
23authorizing construction for the life of the mine. Lands added
24to a conceptual reclamation plan subject to this paragraph
25through a modification submitted after July 1, 1996, that are
26contiguous to the conceptual reclamation plan area shall be
27exempt from rules adopted under subsection (9), provided that
28the total acreage of the conceptual reclamation plan may not be
29increased through such modification and the cumulative acreage
30added may not exceed 3 percent of the conceptual reclamation
31plan area. Lands that have been mined or disturbed by mining
32activities, lands subject to a conservation easement under which
33the grantee is a state or federal regulatory agency, and lands
34otherwise preserved as a part of a permitting review may not be
35removed from the conceptual reclamation plan area under this
36subsection.
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40     On page 1, remove: the entire title
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42and insert:
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A bill to be entitled
44An act relating to water resources; amending s. 373.323,
45F.S.; authorizing licensed water well contractors to
46facilitate performance of additional work incidental to
47the construction, repair, or abandonment of a water well;
48amending s. 373.324, F.S.; requiring the Department of
49Environmental Protection to include an administrative fee
50in its license-renewal method prescribed by rule; waiving
51continuing education requirements for license renewal of
52certain water well contractors; providing exemptions from
53continuing education requirements for water well
54contractors on active military duty and their spouses;
55amending s. 373.333, F.S.; increasing the amount of the
56administrative fine a water management district may impose
57for certain water well contracting violations; allowing
58the water management district to impose an administrative
59fine against unlicensed water well contractors; amending
60s. 373.414, F.S.; exempting from rules certain mining
61activities on lands added to a conceptual reclamation plan
62modified after a certain date; providing restrictions from
63removal of certain lands from the conceptual reclamation
64plan; providing an effective date.


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