Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1858
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/30/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
       (Detert) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 373.4591, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         373.4591 Improvements on private agricultural lands.—The
    8  Legislature encourages public-private partnerships to accomplish
    9  water storage and water quality improvements on private
   10  agricultural lands. When an agreement is entered into between a
   11  water management district or the department and a private
   12  landowner to establish such a partnership, a baseline condition
   13  determining the extent of wetlands and other surface waters on
   14  the property shall be established and documented in the
   15  agreement before improvements are constructed. The determination
   16  for the baseline condition shall be conducted using the methods
   17  set forth in the rules adopted pursuant to s. 373.421. The
   18  baseline condition documented in the agreement shall be
   19  considered the extent of wetlands and other surface waters on
   20  the property for the purpose of regulation under this chapter
   21  for the duration of the agreement and after its expiration.
   22         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
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   24  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   25         And the title is amended as follows:
   26         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   27  and insert:
   28                        A bill to be entitled                      
   29         An act relating to water storage and water quality
   30         improvements; creating s. 373.4591, F.S.; requiring a
   31         specified determination as a condition of an agreement
   32         for water storage and water quality improvements on
   33         private agricultural lands; providing a methodology
   34         for such determination; providing for regulation of
   35         such lands for the duration of the agreement and after
   36         its expiration; providing an effective date.