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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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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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. |