Florida Senate - 2023                      CS for CS for SB 1072
       
       
        
       By the Committees on Community Affairs; and Environment and
       Natural Resources; and Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       578-03553-23                                          20231072c2
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to dredging and beach restoration
    3         projects; amending s. 403.816, F.S.; directing the
    4         Department of Environmental Protection to require, as
    5         a condition of permits issued for certain dredging and
    6         beach restoration projects, that any adverse impact
    7         analysis conducted for the activity meet certain
    8         requirements; requiring a local government to provide
    9         notice of its intent to conduct an analysis to certain
   10         adjacent local governments; providing applicability;
   11         providing an effective date.
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Present subsection (3) of section 403.816,
   16  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (4), and a new
   17  subsection (3) is added to that section, to read:
   18         403.816 Permits for maintenance dredging of deepwater ports
   19  and beach restoration projects.—
   20         (3) As a condition of a permit issued for a project
   21  pursuant to this section, the department shall require that any
   22  analysis to determine the adverse impacts of the activity on the
   23  natural habitat be conducted by an independent contractor
   24  selected by the local government and in a manner prescribed by
   25  the department. The independent contractor conducting the
   26  analysis may not be associated with any project of the
   27  contractor performing the activity for the local government for
   28  a period of 5 years before the commencement of the analysis and
   29  for a period of 5 years after the completion of the analysis.
   30  The local government shall provide written notice of its intent
   31  to have an analysis conducted to adjacent local governments that
   32  may be impacted by the activity. However, this subsection does
   33  not apply to any deepwater port maintenance dredging.
   34         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.