Florida Senate - 2011             CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2130
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                 Floor: AD/CR          .                                
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       The Conference Committee on SB 2130 recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Conference Committee Amendment (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (9) of section
    7  403.1835, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         403.1835 Water pollution control financial assistance.—
    9         (9) Funds for the loans and grants authorized under this
   10  section must be managed as follows:
   11         (b) Revenues from the loan grant allocations authorized
   12  under subsection (4), federal appropriations used for the
   13  purpose of administering this section, state matching funds for
   14  grants authorized by federal statute or other federal action,
   15  and service fees, and all earnings thereon, shall be deposited
   16  into the department’s Federal Grants and Donations Trust Fund.
   17  Service fees and all earnings thereon must be used solely for
   18  program administration and other water quality activities
   19  specifically authorized pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution
   20  Control Act (Clean Water Act), Pub. L. No. 92-500, as amended,
   21  and set forth in 40 C.F.R. part 35, Guidance on Fees Charged by
   22  States to Recipients of Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program
   23  Assistance. The loan grant allocation revenues and earnings
   24  thereon must be used solely for the purpose of making grants to
   25  financially disadvantaged small communities. Federal
   26  appropriations and state matching funds for grants authorized by
   27  federal statute or other federal action, and earnings thereon,
   28  must be used solely for the purposes authorized. All deposits
   29  into the department’s Federal Grants and Donations Trust Fund
   30  under this section, and earnings thereon, must be accounted for
   31  separately from all other moneys deposited into the fund.
   32         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.
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   35         And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   37  and insert:
   38                        A bill to be entitled                      
   39         An act relating to pollution control; amending s.
   40         403.1835, F.S.; revising requirements for the deposit
   41         of funds used in providing financial assistance for
   42         water pollution control; requiring that such funds be
   43         deposited into the department’s Federal Grants Trust
   44         Fund rather than the department’s Grants and Donations
   45         Trust Fund; specifying additional uses of moneys
   46         deposited into the Federal Grants Trust Fund;
   47         providing an effective date.