Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1360
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/20/2024           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and
       General Government (Gruters) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Present paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (2)
    6  of section 379.2273, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
    7  paragraphs (d) and (e), respectively, a new paragraph (c) is
    8  added to that subsection, and subsection (4) of that section is
    9  amended, to read:
   10         379.2273 Florida Red Tide Mitigation and Technology
   11  Development Initiative; Initiative Technology Advisory Council.—
   12         (2) The Florida Red Tide Mitigation and Technology
   13  Development Initiative is established as a partnership between
   14  the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute within the commission
   15  and Mote Marine Laboratory.
   16         (c) Upon successful completion of science-based laboratory
   17  testing of prevention, control, and mitigation technologies and
   18  approaches, the initiative shall develop recommendations for
   19  field trial deployment of the technologies and approaches in
   20  state waters. The initiative shall submit a report on its
   21  findings and recommendations to the department, the commission,
   22  the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and other
   23  state agencies with regulatory oversight of field trial
   24  deployment of the technologies and approaches in state waters.
   25  The department shall evaluate the technologies and approaches
   26  and identify all existing state permits Mote Marine Laboratory
   27  may use to deploy and test the technologies and approaches in
   28  state waters. The department shall submit its evaluation to Mote
   29  Marine Laboratory within 60 days after receipt of the report. If
   30  the department determines existing state permits may not be
   31  used, the department shall amend its regulatory or permitting
   32  processes to ensure the timely deployment of any red tide or
   33  similar harmful algal bloom mitigation and control technologies
   34  and approaches recommended by the initiative. Upon successful
   35  testing of the technologies and approaches, the department shall
   36  expedite regulatory reviews for the recurring use of the
   37  technologies and approaches in state waters to control and
   38  mitigate the impacts of red tide or similar harmful algal
   39  blooms.
   40         (4) This section expires June 30, 2025.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.
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   44  And the title is amended as follows:
   45         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   46  and insert:
   47                        A bill to be entitled                      
   48         An act relating to the Florida Red Tide Mitigation and
   49         Technology Development Initiative; amending s.
   50         379.2273, F.S.; requiring the initiative to develop
   51         recommendations for deployment of certain technologies
   52         and approaches and submit a report to the Department
   53         of Environmental Protection, the Fish and Wildlife
   54         Conservation Commission, the Department of Agriculture
   55         and Consumer Services, and certain state agencies;
   56         requiring the department to submit an evaluation
   57         regarding the technologies and approaches to Mote
   58         Marine Laboratory within a specified time period and
   59         amend regulatory or permitting processes and expedite
   60         regulatory reviews under certain circumstances;
   61         removing the expiration date of the initiative;
   62         providing an effective date.