Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 604
       
       
       
       By Senator Dean
       
       
       
       
       3-00526-10                                             2010604__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Water Protection and
    3         Sustainability Program Trust Fund; amending s.
    4         373.1961, F.S.; authorizing water management districts
    5         to use certain moneys in the fund for water resource
    6         development projects; providing an effective date.
    7  
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section
   11  373.1961, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         373.1961 Water production; general powers and duties;
   13  identification of needs; funding criteria; economic incentives;
   14  reuse funding.—
   15         (3) FUNDING.—
   16         (c) The financial assistance for alternative water supply
   17  projects allocated in each district’s budget as required in s.
   18  373.196(6) shall be combined with the state funds and used to
   19  assist in funding the project construction costs of alternative
   20  water supply projects selected by the governing board. If the
   21  district has not completed a any regional water supply plan, or
   22  the regional water supply plan does not identify the need for
   23  any alternative water supply projects, funds deposited in the
   24  Water Protection and Sustainability Program Trust Fund to the
   25  credit of the Northwest Florida Water Management District and
   26  the Suwannee River Water Management District that district’s
   27  trust fund may be used for water resource development projects,
   28  including, but not limited to, springs protection.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.