Florida Senate - 2021 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SPB 7062 Ì804984MÎ804984 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: FAV . 03/22/2021 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Brodeur) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete lines 77 - 134 4 and insert: 5 (2) 6 (d) The department, in consultation with the St. Johns 7 River Water Management District, the South Florida Water 8 Management District, the Southwest Florida Water Management 9 District, and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer 10 Services, shall adopt uniform rules for application within the 11 Central Florida Water Initiative Area that include: 12 1. A single, uniform definition of the term “harmful to the 13 water resources” consistent with the term’s usage in s. 373.219; 14 2. A single method for calculating residential per capita 15 water use; 16 3. A single process for permit reviews; 17 4. A single, consistent process, as appropriate, to set 18 minimum flows and minimum water levels and water reservations; 19 5. A goal for residential per capita water use for each 20 consumptive use permit;and21 6. An annual conservation goal for each consumptive use 22 permit consistent with the regional water supply plan; 23 7. An annual supplemental irrigation requirement allocation 24 for agricultural uses based on a 2-in-10-year drought condition, 25 or a more frequent occurring drought condition if the applicant 26 so requests; and 27 8. A process for the applicable water management district 28 to examine an agriculture user's average annual supplemental 29 irrigation water use over 5-year periods against the annual 30 supplemental irrigation needs in the 5-in-10-year rainfall 31 condition. If this examination indicates that the agricultural 32 user's average annual use exceeds that needed in such rainfall 33 condition for reasons other than prolonged periods of below 34 average rainfall, the water management district may request that 35 the agricultural user explain the reason for the exceedance and 36 what measures that user will employ to reduce such future 37 average annual water use to be no greater than that needed in 38 the 5-in-10-year rainfall condition. However, nothing in this 39 process shall be identified as an allocation. 40 41 Subparagraphs 7. and 8. above shall not apply to areas where 42 existing recovery strategies within the Central Florida Water 43 Initiative Area adopted before July 1, 2016, contain 44 supplemental irrigation allocation requirements. The uniform 45 rules must include existing recovery strategies within the 46 Central Florida Water Initiative Area adopted before July 1, 47 2016. The department may grant variances to the uniform rules if 48 there are unique circumstances or hydrogeological factors that 49 make application of the uniform rules unrealistic or 50 impractical. 51 52 53 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 54 And the title is amended as follows: 55 Delete lines 15 - 27 56 and insert: 57 373.0465, F.S.; requiring the department, in 58 consultation with specified water management 59 districts, to adopt rules that include an annual 60 supplemental irrigation requirement allocation for 61 agricultural uses and a process for examining an 62 agriculture user's average annual supplemental 63 irrigation needs; providing for the applicability of 64 specified rules to areas with certain existing 65 recovery strategies; creating s. 373.0466, F.S.;