| 1 | Representative(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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| 6 | insert: | 
| 7 |      Section 4.  Subsection (15) of section 373.414, Florida  | 
| 8 | Statutes, is amended to read: | 
| 9 |      373.414  Additional criteria for activities in surface  | 
| 10 | waters and wetlands.-- | 
| 11 |      (15)  Activities associated with mining operations as  | 
| 12 | defined by and subject to ss. 378.201-378.212 and 378.701- | 
| 13 | 378.703 and included in a conceptual reclamation plan or  | 
| 14 | modification application submitted prior to July 1, 1996, shall  | 
| 15 | continue to be reviewed under the rules of the department  | 
| 16 | adopted pursuant to ss. 403.91-403.929, 1984 Supplement to the  | 
| 17 | Florida Statutes 1983, as amended, the rules of the water  | 
| 18 | management districts under this part, and interagency  | 
| 19 | agreements, in effect on January 1, 1993. Such activities shall  | 
| 20 | be exempt from rules adopted pursuant to subsection (9) and the  | 
| 21 | statewide methodology ratified pursuant to s. 373.4211. As of  | 
| 22 | January 1, 1994, such activities may be issued permits  | 
| 23 | authorizing construction for the life of the mine. Lands added  | 
| 24 | to a conceptual reclamation plan subject to this paragraph  | 
| 25 | through a modification submitted after July 1, 1996, that are  | 
| 26 | contiguous to the conceptual reclamation plan area shall be  | 
| 27 | exempt from rules adopted under subsection (9), provided that  | 
| 28 | the total acreage of the conceptual reclamation plan may not be  | 
| 29 | increased through such modification and the cumulative acreage  | 
| 30 | added may not exceed 3 percent of the conceptual reclamation  | 
| 31 | plan area. Lands that have been mined or disturbed by mining  | 
| 32 | activities, lands subject to a conservation easement under which  | 
| 33 | the grantee is a state or federal regulatory agency, and lands  | 
| 34 | otherwise preserved as a part of a permitting review may not be  | 
| 35 | removed from the conceptual reclamation plan area under this  | 
| 36 | subsection. | 
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| 39 | ========= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ========= | 
| 40 |      On page 1, remove: the entire title | 
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| 42 | and insert: | 
| 43 | A bill to be entitled | 
| 44 | An act relating to water resources; amending s. 373.323,  | 
| 45 | F.S.; authorizing licensed water well contractors to  | 
| 46 | facilitate performance of additional work incidental to  | 
| 47 | the construction, repair, or abandonment of a water well;  | 
| 48 | amending s. 373.324, F.S.; requiring the Department of  | 
| 49 | Environmental Protection to include an administrative fee  | 
| 50 | in its license-renewal method prescribed by rule; waiving  | 
| 51 | continuing education requirements for license renewal of  | 
| 52 | certain water well contractors; providing exemptions from  | 
| 53 | continuing education requirements for water well  | 
| 54 | contractors on active military duty and their spouses;  | 
| 55 | amending s. 373.333, F.S.; increasing the amount of the  | 
| 56 | administrative fine a water management district may impose  | 
| 57 | for certain water well contracting violations; allowing  | 
| 58 | the water management district to impose an administrative  | 
| 59 | fine against unlicensed water well contractors; amending  | 
| 60 | s. 373.414, F.S.; exempting from rules certain mining  | 
| 61 | activities on lands added to a conceptual reclamation plan  | 
| 62 | modified after a certain date; providing restrictions from  | 
| 63 | removal of certain lands from the conceptual reclamation  | 
| 64 | plan; providing an effective date. |