Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1154
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  04/06/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
       (Constantine) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 513 and 514
    4  insert:
    5         Section 5. Subsection (14) of section 403.503, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         403.503 Definitions relating to Florida Electrical Power
    8  Plant Siting Act.—As used in this act:
    9         (14) “Electrical power plant” means, for the purpose of
   10  certification, any steam or solar electrical generating facility
   11  using any process or fuel, including nuclear materials, except
   12  that this term does not include any steam or solar electrical
   13  generating facility of less than 75 megawatts in capacity unless
   14  the applicant for such a facility elects to apply for
   15  certification under this act. This term also includes the site;
   16  all associated facilities that will be owned by the applicant
   17  that are physically connected to the site; all associated
   18  facilities that are indirectly connected to the site by other
   19  proposed associated facilities that will be owned by the
   20  applicant; and associated transmission lines that will be owned
   21  by the applicant which connect the electrical power plant to an
   22  existing transmission network or rights-of-way to which the
   23  applicant intends to connect. At the applicant’s option, this
   24  term may include any offsite associated facilities that will not
   25  be owned by the applicant; offsite associated facilities that
   26  are owned by the applicant but that are not directly connected
   27  to the site; any proposed terminal or intermediate substations
   28  or substation expansions connected to the associated
   29  transmission line; or new transmission lines, upgrades, or
   30  improvements of an existing transmission line on any portion of
   31  the applicant’s electrical transmission system necessary to
   32  support the generation injected into the system from the
   33  proposed electrical power plant.
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   35         Renumber subsequent sections
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   37  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   38         And the title is amended as follows:
   39         Delete line 33
   40  and insert:
   41  begin and end on specified dates; amending s. 403.503, F.S.;
   42  revising the definition of "electrical power plant"; amending s.
   43  525.09,