Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1866
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/03/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Benacquisto) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 2825 - 2851
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 58. Subsections (2) and (4) of section 339.63,
    6  Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsections (5) and (6) are
    7  added to that section, to read:
    8         339.63 System facilities designated; additions and
    9  deletions.—
   10         (2) The Strategic Intermodal System and the Emerging
   11  Strategic Intermodal System include the following five four
   12  different types of facilities which that each form one component
   13  of an interconnected transportation system which types include:
   14         (a) Existing or planned hubs that are ports and terminals
   15  including airports, seaports, spaceports, passenger terminals,
   16  and rail terminals that serving to move goods or people between
   17  Florida regions of the state or between this state Florida and
   18  other markets in the United States and the rest of the world.
   19         (b) Existing or planned corridors that are highways, rail
   20  lines, waterways, and other exclusive-use facilities connecting
   21  major markets within the state Florida or between this state
   22  Florida and other states or nations.
   23         (c) Existing or planned intermodal connectors that are
   24  highways, rail lines, waterways or local public transit systems
   25  that serve serving as connectors between the components listed
   26  in paragraphs (a) and (b).
   27         (d) Existing or planned military access facilities that are
   28  highways or rail lines linking Strategic Intermodal System
   29  corridors to the state’s strategic military installations.
   30         (e)(d) Existing or planned facilities that significantly
   31  improve the state’s competitive position to compete for the
   32  movement of additional goods into and through this state.
   33         (4) Except as provided in subsections (5) and (6), after
   34  the initial designation of the Strategic Intermodal System under
   35  subsection (1), the department shall, in coordination with the
   36  metropolitan planning organizations, local governments, regional
   37  planning councils, transportation providers, and affected public
   38  agencies, add facilities to or delete facilities from the
   39  Strategic Intermodal System described in paragraph (2)(a) based
   40  upon criteria adopted by the department.
   41         (5)However, An airport that is designated as a reliever
   42  airport to a Strategic Intermodal System airport which has at
   43  least 75,000 itinerant operations per year, has a runway length
   44  of at least 5,500 linear feet, is capable of handling aircraft
   45  weighing at least 60,000 pounds with a dual wheel configuration
   46  which is served by at least one precision instrument approach,
   47  and serves a cluster of aviation-dependent industries, shall be
   48  designated as part of the Strategic Intermodal System by the
   49  Secretary of Transportation upon the request of a reliever
   50  airport meeting this criteria.
   51         (6)(a) Upon the request of a facility that is described in
   52  subsection (2), that meets the definition of an intermodal
   53  logistics center as defined in s. 311.101(1), and that has been
   54  designated in the local comprehensive plan as an intermodal
   55  logistics center or an equivalent planning term, the Secretary
   56  of Transportation shall designate such planned facility as part
   57  of the Strategic Intermodal System.
   58         (b) If a facility is designated as part of the Strategic
   59  Intermodal System pursuant to paragraph (a) and is within the
   60  jurisdiction of a local government that maintains a
   61  transportation concurrency system, such facility shall receive a
   62  waiver of transportation concurrency requirements applicable to
   63  Strategic Intermodal System facilities in order to accommodate
   64  any development at the facility which occurs pursuant to a
   65  building permit issued on or before December 31, 2017, but only
   66  if such facility is located:
   67         1. Within an area designated as a rural area of critical
   68  economic concern pursuant to s. 288.0656(7);
   69         2. Within a rural enterprise zone as defined in s.
   70  290.004(5); or
   71         3. Within 10 miles of the boundary of a rural area of
   72  critical economic concern or a rural enterprise zone.
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   75         And the title is amended as follows:
   76         Delete line 224
   77  and insert:
   78         and the Emerging Strategic Intermodal System;
   79         requiring that the Secretary of Transportation
   80         designate certain planned facilities as part of the
   81         Strategic Intermodal System; providing for such
   82         facilities to receive a waiver of the transportation
   83         concurrency requirements under certain circumstances;
   84         amending