Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1668
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/29/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Rodriguez)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 14 - 21
    4  and insert:
    5         (17) The board of trustees may authorize leases for
    6  seagrass mitigation banks under s. 373.4136 to ensure the
    7  preservation and regeneration of seagrass, as defined in s.
    8  253.04(3)(a), and to offset the unavoidable impacts of projects
    9  when seagrass banks meet the public interest criteria under
   10  chapters 253 and 258. This subsection does not prohibit
   11  mitigation for impacts to seagrass or other habitats on
   12  sovereignty submerged lands, upon approval of the board of
   13  trustees.
   14         Section 2. The Department of Environmental Protection shall
   15  modify rules adopted pursuant to s. 373.4136, Florida Statutes,
   16  to remove any duplicative financial assurance requirements and
   17  to ensure that permitted seagrass mitigation banks comply with
   18  the federal mitigation banking rules.
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   21  And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete lines 4 - 6
   23  and insert:
   24         the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to authorize
   25         leases for seagrass mitigation banks under certain
   26         conditions; providing construction; requiring the
   27         Department of Environmental Protection to modify
   28         specified mitigation banking rules for specified
   29         purposes; providing an effective date.