Senate Bill sb1416c1

    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 1416

    By the Committee on Environmental Preservation; and Senator
    Dockery




    592-2449-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to water resources; amending s.

  3         373.196, F.S.; directing the South Florida

  4         Water Management District to develop

  5         recommendations addressing certain water

  6         storage methods; 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.  Subsection (7) is added to section 373.196,

11  Florida Statutes, to read:

12         373.196  Alternative water supply development.--

13         (7)  The South Florida Water Management District shall

14  develop recommendations on the feasibility of above-ground

15  reservoirs to be constructed, operated, and maintained for the

16  storage of high-level discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the

17  Caloosahatchee River. In developing the recommendations, the

18  district shall consider infrastructure necessary to transfer

19  water being discharged from Lake Okeechobee to a reservoir and

20  infrastructure necessary to construct, operate, and maintain

21  water production and transmission facilities for the purpose

22  of supplying water for multiple uses to the surrounding areas,

23  and shall identify state and local water resource development

24  and water supply development programs that encourage the

25  development and use of alternative water supplies through

26  partnership efforts.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 1416
    592-2449-06




 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                         Senate Bill 1416

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 4  The committee substitute provides that the South Florida Water
    Management district shall develop recommendations on the
 5  feasibility of above ground reservoirs to be constructed,
    operated, and maintained for the storage of high level
 6  discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee River.
    In developing recommendations, the district shall consider
 7  infrastructure that is necessary to transfer water being
    discharged from Lake Okeechobee to a reservoir.  The district
 8  shall also consider infrastructure that is necessary to
    construct, operate, and maintain water production and
 9  transmission facilities for the purpose of supplying water for
    multiple uses to the surrounding areas.
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    The committee substitute also provides that the district shall
11  identify state and local water resource development and water
    supply develop programs which encourage the development and
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