Florida Senate - 2022                             CS for SB 1326
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Community Affairs; and Senators Rodriguez,
       Farmer, Jones, and Berman
       
       
       
       
       578-02850-22                                          20221326c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Comprehensive Review Study of
    3         the Central and Southern Florida Project; amending s.
    4         373.1501, F.S.; requiring the South Florida Water
    5         Management District to prepare and submit a
    6         consolidated annual report regarding the status of a
    7         specified study to the Office of Economic and
    8         Demographic Research, the Department of Environmental
    9         Protection, the Governor, and the Legislature by a
   10         specified date; providing report requirements;
   11         providing an effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Subsection (10) is added to section 373.1501,
   16  Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         373.1501 South Florida Water Management District as local
   18  sponsor.—
   19         (10)(a) By October 1, 2023, and each October 1 thereafter,
   20  the district shall prepare and submit a consolidated annual
   21  report regarding the status of the United States Army Corps of
   22  Engineers’ Section 216 Central and Southern Florida Project
   23  infrastructure resiliency study to the Office of Economic and
   24  Demographic Research, the department, the Governor, the
   25  President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
   26  Representatives.
   27         (b) The report must include:
   28         1. A summary of the findings in the district’s annual sea
   29  level rise and flood resiliency plan.
   30         2. A list of structures that are expected to fall below the
   31  expected service level in the next 5 years.
   32         3. Initial recommendations for the refurbishment or
   33  replacement of the structures identified in subparagraph 2.,
   34  including:
   35         a. Future cost estimates and timelines for the
   36  refurbishment or replacement of the most vulnerable structures.
   37         b. An estimate of project costs and the budget available to
   38  implement recommendations for each vulnerable structure based on
   39  a 10-year horizon.
   40         4. A summary of the state and federal funds expended toward
   41  the implementation of the United States Army Corps of Engineers’
   42  Section 216 Central and Southern Florida Project infrastructure
   43  resiliency study and of other directly related flood
   44  infrastructure resiliency projects of the district through June
   45  30 of each year.
   46         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.