Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 7062
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  03/22/2021           .                                
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       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; and
   21         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.
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   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.;