Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 832
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/25/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Burgess)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 38 - 80
    4  and insert:
    5         378.213 Notice of former phosphate mine site.—
    6         (1) A landowner may record a notice in the official records
    7  of the county in which the land is located which identifies the
    8  landowner’s property as a former phosphate mine. The recorded
    9  notice must be in substantially the following form:
   10  
   11                               NOTICE                              
   12         This property is a former phosphate mine as defined in
   13         s. 378.213(2), Florida Statutes.
   14  
   15  Such recording serves as notice that the land is a former
   16  phosphate mine.
   17         (2) As used in this section, the term “former phosphate
   18  mine” means an area of land upon which phosphate mining has been
   19  conducted and which may have been subject to a radiation survey
   20  in accordance with s. 404.0561 and state reclamation
   21  requirements of ss. 378.201-378.212, but does not include a
   22  phosphogypsum stack as defined in s. 403.4154(1)(d).
   23         Section 3. Section 404.0561, Florida Statutes, is created
   24  to read:
   25         404.0561 Survey of former phosphate mining lands.—
   26         (1) Upon petition by a current landowner, the department
   27  shall conduct a gamma radiation survey of a former phosphate
   28  land parcel within 120 days after receipt of the petition to
   29  determine the radioactivity levels. The survey must document
   30  gamma radiation exposure measurements and the locations of the
   31  measurements. Gamma radiation measurements must be taken at the
   32  density of one per site or one per acre of land, whichever is
   33  greater.
   34         (2) The department shall provide a copy of the preliminary
   35  survey results to the petitioner within 30 days after completion
   36  of the survey. Within 60 days after receipt of the survey, the
   37  petitioner may request an additional survey based upon any
   38  reasonable belief that the survey was flawed or not
   39  representative of conditions on the site. The department shall
   40  conduct one additional survey within 90 days after receipt of
   41  the petitioner’s request. The additional survey must meet the
   42  requirements of this section and is deemed final within 90 days
   43  after completion.
   44         (3) A petitioner requesting a survey pursuant to this
   45  section is responsible for the cost of the survey conducted by
   46  the department.
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   49  And the title is amended as follows:
   50         Delete lines 5 - 13
   51  and insert:
   52         sites; creating s. 378.213, F.S.; authorizing
   53         landowners to record certain notice of former
   54         phosphate mines; specifying requirements for such
   55         notice; defining the term “former phosphate mine”;
   56         creating s. 404.0561, F.S.; requiring the Department
   57         of Health to conduct surveys of former phosphate land
   58         parcels upon petition; providing conditions and
   59         requirements for such surveys; specifying that
   60         petitioners bear the cost of surveys; creating s.
   61         768.405,