Bill Text: FL S0776 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Wekiva River Protection Act [EPSC]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 1271 (Ch. 2010-225), CS/CS/CS/SB 550 (Ch. 2010-205) [S0776 Detail]
Download: Florida-2010-S0776-Comm_Sub.html
Florida Senate - 2010 CS for SB 776 By the Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation; and Senator Constantine 592-02164-10 2010776c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the Wekiva River Protection Act; 3 amending s. 369.317, F.S.; clarifying mitigation 4 offsets in the Wekiva Study Area; providing an 5 effective date. 6 7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 9 Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 369.317, Florida 10 Statutes, is amended to read: 11 369.317 Wekiva Parkway.— 12 (6) The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority is 13 hereby granted the authority to act as a third-party acquisition 14 agent, pursuant to s. 259.041 on behalf of the Board of Trustees 15 or chapter 373 on behalf of the governing board of the St. Johns 16 River Water Management District, for the acquisition of all 17 necessary lands, property and all interests in property 18 identified herein, including fee simple or less-than-fee simple 19 interests. The lands subject to this authority are identified in 20 paragraph 10.a., State of Florida, Office of the Governor, 21 Executive Order 03-112 of July 1, 2003, and in Recommendation 16 22 of the Wekiva Basin Area Task Force created by Executive Order 23 2002-259, such lands otherwise known as Neighborhood Lakes, a 24 1,587+/- acre parcel located in Orange and Lake Counties within 25 Sections 27, 28, 33, and 34 of Township 19 South, Range 28 East, 26 and Sections 3, 4, 5, and 9 of Township 20 South, Range 28 East; 27 Seminole Woods/Swamp, a 5,353+/- acre parcel located in Lake 28 County within Section 37, Township 19 South, Range 28 East; New 29 Garden Coal; a 1,605+/- acre parcel in Lake County within 30 Sections 23, 25, 26, 35, and 36, Township 19 South, Range 28 31 East; Pine Plantation, a 617+/- acre tract consisting of eight 32 individual parcels within the Apopka City limits. The Department 33 of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Protection, 34 the St. Johns River Water Management District, and other land 35 acquisition entities shall participate and cooperate in 36 providing information and support to the third-party acquisition 37 agent. The land acquisition process authorized by this paragraph 38 shall begin no later than December 31, 2004. Acquisition of the 39 properties identified as Neighborhood Lakes, Pine Plantation, 40 and New Garden Coal, or approval as a mitigation bank shall be 41 concluded no later than December 31, 2010. Department of 42 Transportation and Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority 43 funds expended to purchase an interest in those lands identified 44 in this subsection shall be eligible as environmental mitigation 45 for road construction related impacts in the Wekiva Study Area. 46 If any of the lands identified in this subsection are used as 47 environmental mitigation for road construction related impacts 48 incurred by the Department of Transportation or Orlando-Orange 49 County Expressway Authority, or for other impacts incurred by 50 other entities, within the Wekiva Study Area or within the 51 Wekiva parkway alignment corridor, and if the mitigation offsets 52 these impacts, the St. Johns River Water Management District and 53 the Department of Environmental Protection shall consider the 54 activity regulated under part IV of chapter 373 to meet the 55 cumulative impact requirements of s. 373.414(8)(a). 56 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.
