Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1072
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/14/2023           .                                
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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 everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 403.816, Florida
    6  Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (4), and a new
    7  subsection (3) is added to that section, to read:
    8         403.816 Permits for maintenance dredging of deepwater ports
    9  and beach restoration projects.—
   10         (3) As a condition of a permit issued for a project
   11  pursuant to this section, the department shall require that any
   12  analysis to determine the adverse impacts of the activity on the
   13  natural habitat be conducted by an independent contractor
   14  selected by the local government in a manner prescribed by the
   15  department. The independent contractor for the analysis may not
   16  be associated with any project of the contractor performing the
   17  activity for the local government. The local government shall
   18  provide written notice of its intent to conduct an analysis to
   19  adjacent local governments that may be impacted by the activity.
   20  This subsection does not apply to permits issued before July 1,
   21  2024.
   22         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.
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   24  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   25  And the title is amended as follows:
   26         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   27  and insert:
   28                        A bill to be entitled                      
   29         An act relating to dredging and beach restoration
   30         projects; amending s. 403.816, F.S.; directing the
   31         Department of Environmental Protection to require, as
   32         a condition of permits issued for certain dredging and
   33         beach restoration projects, that any adverse impact
   34         analysis conducted for the activity meet certain
   35         requirements; requiring a local government to provide
   36         notice of its intent to conduct an analysis to certain
   37         adjacent local governments; providing applicability;
   38         providing an effective date.