Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1954
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Rodrigues)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 76 - 173
    4  and insert:
    5         (2)DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:
    6  	(a)"Critical asset" includes:
    7         1.Transportation assets and evacuation routes, including
    8  airports, bridges, bus terminals, ports, major roadways,
    9  marinas, rail facilities, and railroad bridges.
   10         2.Critical infrastructure, including wastewater treatment
   11  facilities, stormwater treatment facilities, drinking water
   12  facilities, electric production and supply facilities, solid and
   13  hazardous waste facilities, military installations,
   14  communications facilities, and disaster debris management sites.
   15         3.Critical community and emergency facilities, including
   16  schools, colleges, universities, community centers, correctional
   17  facilities, disaster recovery centers, emergency medical service
   18  facilities, emergency operation centers, fire stations, health
   19  care facilities, hospitals, law enforcement facilities, local
   20  government facilities, logistical staging areas, affordable
   21  public housing, risk shelter inventory, and state government
   22  facilities.
   23         4.Natural, cultural, and historical resources, including
   24  conservation lands, parks, shorelines, surface waters, wetlands,
   25  and historical and cultural assets.
   26         (b) "Department" means the Department of Environmental
   27  Protection.
   28         (3)RESILIENT FLORIDA GRANT PROGRAM.—
   29         (a)The Resilient Florida Grant Program is established
   30  within the department.
   31         (b)Subject to appropriation, the department may provide
   32  grants to a county or municipality to fund the costs of
   33  community resilience planning, including projects that address
   34  the requirements of s. 163.3178(2)(f), vulnerability assessments
   35  that identify or address risks of flooding and sea-level rise,
   36  and the development of plans and policies that allow communities
   37  to prepare for threats from flooding and sea-level rise.
   38         (c)A vulnerability assessment conducted pursuant to
   39  paragraph (b) must encompass an entire county or municipality
   40  and must use the most recent publicly available Digital
   41  Elevation Model and dynamic modeling techniques, if available.
   42         1.The assessment must include an analysis of the
   43  vulnerability of and risks to critical assets, including
   44  regionally significant assets, owned or managed by the county or
   45  municipality.
   46         2.Upon completion of a vulnerability assessment, the
   47  county or municipality shall submit to the department the
   48  following:
   49         a.A report detailing the findings of the assessment.
   50         b.All electronic mapping data used to illustrate flooding
   51  and sea-level rise impacts identified in the assessment. When
   52  submitting such data, the county or municipality shall include:
   53         (I)Geotechnical data in an electronic file format suitable
   54  for input to the department’s mapping tool.
   55         (II)Geographic Information System data that has been
   56  projected into the appropriate Florida State Plane Coordinate
   57  System and that is suitable for the department’s mapping tool.
   58  The county or municipality must also submit metadata using
   59  standards prescribed by the department.
   60         c.A list of critical assets, including regionally
   61  significant assets, that are impacted by flooding and sea-level
   62  rise.
   63         (d)A vulnerability assessment conducted for a county or
   64  municipality subject to the requirements of s. 163.3178(2)(f)
   65  must include:
   66         1.A peril of flood analysis that addresses the
   67  requirements of s. 163.3178(2)(f).
   68         2.The depth of sea-level rise, calculated using the North
   69  American Vertical Datum of 1988, expected for the county or
   70  municipality using, at a minimum, all of the following:
   71         a.Two local sea-level rise scenarios, which must equal or
   72  exceed the 2017 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
   73  intermediate-low and intermediate-high sea-level rise
   74  projections.
   75         b.At least two planning horizons that must be, at a
   76  minimum, 20 years and 50 years from the date of the assessment.
   77         c.Local sea-level rise data that has been interpolated
   78  between the two closest coastal tide gauges with National
   79  Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sea-level rise data.
   80         3.The depth of expected storm surge flooding using Federal
   81  Emergency Management Agency storm surge data. The storm surge
   82  flood depth used must equal or exceed the 100-year flood event
   83  and must be calculated using the North American Vertical Datum
   84  of 1988.
   85         4.The depth of potential future flooding from combinations
   86  of sea-level rise, storm surge, and high tides using, at a
   87  minimum, all of the following:
   88         a.Two local sea-level rise scenarios, which must equal or
   89  exceed the 2017 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
   90  intermediate-low and intermediate-high sea-level rise
   91  projections.
   92         b.At least two planning horizons that must be, at a
   93  minimum, 20 years and 50 years from the date of the assessment.
   94         c.Local sea-level rise data that has been interpolated
   95  between the two closest coastal tide gauges with National
   96  Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sea-level rise data.
   97         d.The depth of expected storm surge flooding using Federal
   98  Emergency Management Agency storm surge data. The storm surge
   99  flood depth used must equal or exceed the 100-year flood event
  100  and must be calculated using the North American Vertical Datum
  101  of 1988.
  102         e.Future high tide flooding, which must be derived using
  103  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Report
  104  NOS CO-OPS 086.
  105         (e) The department shall submit written notification to the
  106  President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
  107  Representatives when any scientific source or standard
  108  specifically referenced in this subsection is updated or
  109  replaced with a subsequent source or standard. Such written
  110  notification shall be submitted within 30 days of the department
  111  learning of an update or replacement.
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  114  And the title is amended as follows:
  115         Delete line 11
  116  and insert:
  117         local government vulnerability assessments; requiring
  118         the department to notify the Legislature if
  119         specifically referenced sources or standards are
  120         updated or replaced; requiring