((LATE FILED FOR: 5/2/2008 8:00:00 AM))Amendment
Bill No. CS/HB 7129
Amendment No. 883833
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Williams offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
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5     Section 19.  Subsection (6) is added to section 373.236,
6Florida Statutes, to read:
7     373.236  Duration of permits; compliance reports.--
8     (6)(a)  The need for alternative water supply development
9projects to meet anticipated public water supply demands of the
10state is so important that it is essential to encourage
11participation in and contribution to these projects by private
12rural land owners who characteristically have relatively modest
13near-term water demands but substantially increasing demands
14after the 20-year planning horizon in s. 373.0361. Where such
15landowners make extraordinary contributions of lands or
16construction funding to enable the expeditious implementation of
17such projects, water management districts and the department may
18grant permits for such projects for a period of up to 50 years
19to municipalities, counties, special districts, regional water
20supply authorities, multijurisdictional water supply entities,
21and publicly owned or privately owned utilities, with the
22exception of any of the foregoing created for or by a private
23landowner after April 1, 2008, which have entered into an
24agreement with the private landowner for the purpose of more
25efficiently pursuing alternative public water supply development
26projects identified in a district's regional water supply plan
27and of meeting water demands of both the applicant and the
28landowner.
29     (b)  Any permit pursuant to paragraph (a) shall be granted
30only for that period of time for which there is sufficient data
31to provide reasonable assurance that the conditions for permit
32issuance will be met. Such a permit shall require a compliance
33report by the permittee every 5 years during the term of the
34permit. The report shall contain sufficient data to maintain
35reasonable assurance that the conditions for permit issuance
36applicable at the time of district review of the compliance
37report are met. Following review of this report, the governing
38board or the department may modify the permit to ensure that the
39use meets the conditions for issuance. This subsection does not
40limit the existing authority of the department or the governing
41board to modify or revoke a consumptive use permit.
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T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T
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49of-regional impact review; amending s. 373.236, F.S.;
50authorizing water management districts and the Department of
51Environmental Protection to grant permits as incentives for
52landowners to pursue alternative water resource projects;
53providing requirements for the permits; amending s. 403.121,
54F.S.;


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