| 1 | Representative Patronis offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove lines 1128-1143 and insert: |
| 5 | (3) The mitigation fee and the water treatment plant |
| 6 | upgrade fee imposed by this section must be reported to the |
| 7 | Department of Revenue. Payment of the mitigation and the water |
| 8 | treatment plant upgrade fees must be accompanied by a form |
| 9 | prescribed by the Department of Revenue. |
| 10 | (a) The proceeds of the mitigation fee, less |
| 11 | administrative costs, must be transferred by the Department of |
| 12 | Revenue to the South Florida Water Management District and |
| 13 | deposited into the Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund. |
| 14 | (b) Beginning January 1, 2012, the proceeds of the water |
| 15 | treatment plant upgrade fee, less administrative costs, must be |
| 16 | transferred by the Department of Revenue to the South Florida |
| 17 | Water Management District and deposited into the Lake Belt |
| 18 | Mitigation Trust Fund until either: |
| 19 | 1. A total of $20 million from the water treatment plant |
| 20 | upgrade fee proceeds, less administrative costs, is deposited |
| 21 | into the Lake Belt Mitigation Trust Fund; or |
| 22 | 2. The quarterly pathogen sampling conducted as a |
| 23 | condition of the permits issued by the department for rock |
| 24 | mining activities in the Miami-Dade Lake Belt Area demonstrates |
| 25 | that the water in any quarry lake in the vicinity of the |
| 26 | Northwest Wellfield would be classified as being in Bin Two or |
| 27 | higher as defined in the Environmental Protection Agency's |
| 28 | Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule. |
| 29 | (c) Upon the earliest occurrence of the criteria under |
| 30 | either subparagraph (b)1. or subparagraph (b)2., the |
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| 34 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 35 | Remove lines 111-112 and insert: |
| 36 | Mitigation Trust Fund until specified criteria is met; |
| 37 | providing, after such criteria is met, for the proceeds of |
| 38 | the |