Senate Bill sb0496

    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 496

    By Senator Argenziano





    3-117A-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Citrus/Hernando

  3         Waterways Restoration Council; amending section

  4         1 of ch. 2003-287, Laws of Florida; revising

  5         the membership, powers, and duties of the

  6         council; revising the membership of the

  7         separate county task forces of the council;

  8         providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Subsections (2), (3), and (4) of section 1

13  of chapter 2003-287, Laws of Florida, are amended to read:

14         Section 1.

15         (2)  Members of the council shall consist of 14 12

16  voting members with 7 6 appointed by the President of the

17  Senate and 7 6 appointed by the Speaker of the House of

18  Representatives. The council shall consist of representatives

19  as follows:

20         (a)  Two A waterfront property owners owner from each

21  county, one of whom must be a property owner from the east

22  side of the county and one of whom must be a property owner

23  from the west side of the county.

24         (b)  An attorney from each county.

25         (c)  A member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber

26  of Commerce from each county.

27         (d)  An environmental engineer from each county.

28         (e)  An engineer from each county.

29         (f)  A person from each county with training in biology

30  or another scientific discipline.

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 496
    3-117A-06




 1         (3)  The council members from each county are to form

 2  two separate county task forces from the council to review and

 3  make recommendations on specific waterways. The Hernando

 4  County Task Force shall develop plans for the restoration of

 5  the waterways in Hernando County Weeki Wachee River and

 6  Springs. The Citrus County Task Force shall develop plans for

 7  the restoration of the waterways in Citrus County Tsala-Apopka

 8  Chain of Lakes.

 9         (4)  There shall be a technical advisory group to the

10  council and the two county task forces which shall consist of

11  one representative each from the Southwest Florida Water

12  Management District, the Department of Environmental

13  Protection, the Department of Transportation, the Fish and

14  Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Coastal Rivers Basin

15  Board, the Withlacoochee River Basin Board, the public works

16  department of each county, and the United States Army Corps of

17  Engineers, each of whom shall be appointed by his or her

18  respective agency and each of whom, with the exception of the

19  representatives from the Withlacoochee River Basin Board and

20  Coastal Rivers Basin Board, shall have had training in biology

21  or another scientific discipline.

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

23  law.

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26                          SENATE SUMMARY

27    Revises membership, powers, and duties of the
      Citrus/Hernando Waterways Restoration Council.  Revises
28    membership of certain task forces of the council.

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