| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to the Citrus/Hernando Waterways |
| 3 | Restoration Council; amending section 1 of ch. 2003-287, |
| 4 | Laws of Florida; revising the membership, powers, and |
| 5 | duties of the council; revising the membership of the |
| 6 | separate county task forces of the council; providing an |
| 7 | effective date. |
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| 9 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 11 | Section 1. Subsections (2), (3), and (4) of section 1 of |
| 12 | chapter 2003-287, Laws of Florida, are amended to read: |
| 13 | Section 1. |
| 14 | (2) Members of the council shall consist of 14 12 voting |
| 15 | members with 7 6 appointed by the President of the Senate and 7 |
| 16 | 6 appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The |
| 17 | council shall consist of representatives as follows: |
| 18 | (a) Two A waterfront property owners owner from each |
| 19 | county, one of whom must be a property owner from the east side |
| 20 | of the county and one of whom must be a property owner from the |
| 21 | west side of the county. |
| 22 | (b) An attorney from each county. |
| 23 | (c) A member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of |
| 24 | Commerce from each county. |
| 25 | (d) An environmental engineer from each county. |
| 26 | (e) An engineer from each county. |
| 27 | (f) A person from each county with training in biology or |
| 28 | another scientific discipline. |
| 29 | (3) The council members from each county are to form two |
| 30 | separate county task forces from the council to review and make |
| 31 | recommendations on specific waterways. The Hernando County Task |
| 32 | Force shall develop plans for the restoration of the waterways |
| 33 | in Hernando County Weeki Wachee River and Springs. The Citrus |
| 34 | County Task Force shall develop plans for the restoration of the |
| 35 | waterways in Citrus County Tsala-Apopka Chain of Lakes. |
| 36 | (4) There shall be a technical advisory group to the |
| 37 | council and the two county task forces which shall consist of |
| 38 | one representative each from the Southwest Florida Water |
| 39 | Management District, the Department of Environmental Protection, |
| 40 | the Department of Transportation, the Fish and Wildlife |
| 41 | Conservation Commission, the Coastal Rivers Basin Board, the |
| 42 | Withlacoochee River Basin Board, the public works department of |
| 43 | each county, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, each |
| 44 | of whom shall be appointed by his or her respective agency and |
| 45 | each of whom, with the exception of the representatives from the |
| 46 | Withlacoochee River Basin Board and Coastal Rivers Basin Board, |
| 47 | shall have had training in biology or another scientific |
| 48 | discipline. |
| 49 | Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |