Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1318
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/09/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
       (Dean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 70 - 101
    4  and insert:
    5         2. “Shellfish” means oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops.
    6         (b) The harvesting of shellfish from a sovereign submerged
    7  land lease may be authorized pursuant to chapter 253.
    8         (c) The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust
    9  Fund may authorize the use of a dredge or a mechanical
   10  harvesting device as a special lease condition of a sovereign
   11  submerged land lease issued under chapter 253 if:
   12         1. The use of the dredge or mechanical harvesting device
   13  does not adversely impact the public health, safety, or welfare
   14  of adjacent natural resources; and
   15         2. Aquaculture best management practices have been adopted
   16  pursuant to chapter 120 which:
   17         a. Describe the approved size and specifications of the
   18  dredge or mechanical harvesting device to be used.
   19         b. Provide conditions for deploying and using an approved
   20  dredge or mechanical harvesting device.
   21         c. Specify requirements for monitoring potential impacts
   22  at, and adjacent to, the sovereign submerged land lease site by
   23  the leaseholder.
   24         (d) The use of a dredge or mechanical harvesting device for
   25  the harvesting of shellfish from a sovereign submerged land
   26  lease is authorized if such use was previously authorized as an
   27  existing condition of a perpetual shellfish lease issued
   28  pursuant to former chapter 370.
   29         (e) Only one dredge or mechanical harvesting device per
   30  lease may be possessed or operated at any time at a lease site.
   31         (f) A dredge or mechanical harvesting device authorized by
   32  this subsection may not be used for taking shellfish for any
   33  purpose from public shellfish beds in waters of the state, and
   34  such dredge or mechanical harvesting device may not be possessed
   35  on the waters of the state from 5 p.m. until sunrise.
   36         (g) This subsection does not authorize the harvesting of
   37  shellfish from natural reefs.
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   40  And the title is amended as follows:
   41         Delete line 15
   42  and insert:
   43         sovereign submerged land leases under certain
   44         circumstances; limiting the number