Florida Senate - 2011                                    SB 2130
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Budget
       
       
       
       
       576-03487-11                                          20112130__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to pollution control; amending s.
    3         403.1835, F.S.; revising requirements for the deposit
    4         of funds used in providing financial assistance for
    5         water pollution control; requiring that such funds be
    6         deposited into the department’s Federal Grants Trust
    7         Fund rather than the department’s Grants and Donations
    8         Trust Fund; specifying additional uses of moneys
    9         deposited into the Federal Grants Trust Fund;
   10         providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (9) of section
   15  403.1835, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         403.1835 Water pollution control financial assistance.—
   17         (9) Funds for the loans and grants authorized under this
   18  section must be managed as follows:
   19         (b) Revenues from the loan grant allocations authorized
   20  under subsection (4), federal appropriations used for the
   21  purpose of administering this section, state matching funds for
   22  grants authorized by federal statute or other federal action,
   23  and service fees, and all earnings thereon, shall be deposited
   24  into the department’s Federal Grants and Donations Trust Fund.
   25  Service fees and all earnings thereon must be used solely for
   26  program administration and other water quality activities
   27  specifically authorized pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution
   28  Control Act (Clean Water Act), Pub. L. No. 92-500, as amended,
   29  and set forth in 40 C.F.R. part 35, Guidance on Fees Charged by
   30  States to Recipients of Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program
   31  Assistance. The loan grant allocation revenues and earnings
   32  thereon must be used solely for the purpose of making grants to
   33  financially disadvantaged small communities. Federal
   34  appropriations and state matching funds for grants authorized by
   35  federal statute or other federal action, and earnings thereon,
   36  must be used solely for the purposes authorized. All deposits
   37  into the department’s Federal Grants and Donations Trust Fund
   38  under this section, and earnings thereon, must be accounted for
   39  separately from all other moneys deposited into the fund.
   40         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.