Florida Senate - 2007                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS/CS/HB 985, 2nd Eng.
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11  Senator Baker moved the following amendment to amendment
12  (741546):
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 92, between lines 20 and 21,
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18         Section 41.  Section 339.63, Florida Statutes, is
19  amended to read:
20         339.63  System facilities designated; additions and
21  deletions.--
22         (1)  The initial Strategic Intermodal System shall
23  include all facilities that meet the criteria recommended by
24  the Strategic Intermodal Steering Committee in a report titled
25  "Steering Committee Final Report: Recommendations for
26  Designating Florida's Strategic Intermodal System" dated
27  December 2002.
28         (2)  The Strategic Intermodal System and the Emerging
29  Strategic Intermodal System include three different types of
30  facilities that each form one component of an interconnected
31  transportation system which types include:
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Florida Senate - 2007 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS/CS/HB 985, 2nd Eng. Barcode 812722 1 (a) Existing or planned hubs that are ports and 2 terminals including airports, seaports, spaceports, passenger 3 terminals, and rail terminals serving to move goods or people 4 between Florida regions or between Florida and other markets 5 in the United States and the rest of the world; 6 (b) Existing or planned corridors that are highways, 7 rail lines, waterways, and other exclusive-use facilities 8 connecting major markets within Florida or between Florida and 9 other states or nations; and 10 (c) Existing or planned intermodal connectors that are 11 highways, rail lines, waterways or local public transit 12 systems serving as connectors between the components listed in 13 paragraphs (a) and (b). 14 (3) After Subsequent to the initial designation of the 15 Strategic Intermodal System under pursuant to subsection (1), 16 the department shall, in coordination with the metropolitan 17 planning organizations, local governments, regional planning 18 councils, transportation providers, and affected public 19 agencies, add facilities to or delete facilities from the 20 Strategic Intermodal System described in paragraphs (2)(b) and 21 (2)(c) based upon criteria adopted by the department. 22 (4) After the initial designation of the Strategic 23 Intermodal System under subsection (1), the department shall, 24 in coordination with the metropolitan planning organizations, 25 local governments, regional planning councils, transportation 26 providers, and affected public agencies, add facilities to or 27 delete facilities from the Strategic Intermodal System 28 described in paragraph (2)(a) based upon criteria adopted by 29 the department. However, an airport that is designated as a 30 reliever airport to a Strategic Intermodal System airport 31 which has at least 75,000 itinerant operations per year, has a 2 9:11 PM 04/30/07 h0985.20tr.222
Florida Senate - 2007 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS/CS/HB 985, 2nd Eng. Barcode 812722 1 runway length of at least 5,500 linear feet, is capable of 2 handling aircraft weighing at least 60,000 pounds with a dual 3 wheel configuration which is served by at least one precision 4 instrument approach, and serves a cluster of 5 aviation-dependent industries, shall be designated as part of 6 the Strategic Intermodal System by the the Secretary of 7 Transportation upon the request of a reliever airport meeting 8 this criteria. shall periodically add facilities to or delete 9 facilities from the Strategic Intermodal System based upon 10 adopted criteria. 11 12 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 13 14 15 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 16 And the title is amended as follows: 17 On page 123, line 28, after the first semicolon 18 19 and insert: 20 amending s. 339.63, F.S.; specifying criteria 21 for types of facilities of the Strategic 22 Intermodal System and the Emerging Strategic 23 Intermodal System; directing the Department of 24 Transportation to designate facilities to an 25 intermodal system based on the criteria; 26 directing the Secretary of Transportation to 27 designate airports meeting specified criteria 28 as part of the Strategic Intermodal System; 29 30 31 3 9:11 PM 04/30/07 h0985.20tr.222