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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. HB 2403, 2nd Eng.

    Amendment No. ___

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11  Senator Latvala moved the following amendment to amendment

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 47, between lines 21 and 22,

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18         Section 15.  Subsections (1) and (3) of section

19  373.1501, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

20         373.1501  South Florida Water Management District as

21  local sponsor.--

22         (1)  As used in this section and s. 373.026(8), the

23  term:

24         (a)  "C-111 Project" means the project identified in

25  the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project, Real

26  Estate Design Memorandum, Canal 111, South Dade County,

27  Florida.

28         (b)  "Department" means the Department of Environmental

29  Protection.

30         (c)  "District" means the South Florida Water

31  Management District.

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  1         (d)  "Kissimmee River Restoration Project" means the

  2  project identified in the Project Cooperation Agreement

  3  between the United States Department of the Army and the South

  4  Florida Water Management District dated March 22, 1994.

  5         (e)  "Pal-Mar Project" means the Pal-Mar (West Jupiter

  6  Wetlands) lands identified in the Save Our Rivers 2000 Land

  7  Acquisition and Management Plan approved by the South Florida

  8  Water Management District on September 9, 1999, (Resolution

  9  99-94).

10         (f)(e)  "Project" means the Central and Southern

11  Florida Project.

12         (g)(f)  "Project Component" means any structural or

13  operational change, resulting from the restudy, to the Central

14  and Southern Florida Project as it existed and was operated as

15  of January 1, 1999.

16         (h)(g)  "Restudy" means the Comprehensive Review Study

17  of the Central and Southern Florida Project, for which federal

18  participation was authorized by the federal Water Resources

19  Development Acts of 1992 and 1996 together with related

20  Congressional resolutions and for which participation by the

21  South Florida Water Management District is authorized by this

22  section. The term includes all actions undertaken pursuant to

23  the aforementioned authorizations which will result in

24  recommendations for modifications or additions to the Central

25  and Southern Florida Project.

26         (i)  "Southern Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed

27  Project" means the area described in the Critical Restoration

28  Project Contract C-9906 Southern Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem

29  Watershed Project Addition/Imperial River Flowway and approved

30  by the South Florida Water Management District on August 12,

31  1999.

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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  1         (j)(h)  "Water Preserve Areas" means those areas

  2  located only within Palm Beach and Broward counties that are

  3  designated as Water Preserve Areas, as approved by the South

  4  Florida Water Management District Governing Board on September

  5  11, 1997, and shall also include all of those lands within

  6  Cell II of the East Coast Buffer in Broward County as

  7  delineated in the boundary survey prepared by Stoner and

  8  Associates, Inc., dated January 31, 2000, SWFWMD #10953.

  9         (k)(i)  "Ten Mile Creek Project" means the Ten Mile

10  Creek Water Preserve Area identified in the Central and

11  Southern Florida Ecosystem Critical Project Letter Report

12  dated April 13, 1998.

13         (3)  The Legislature declares that the Kissimmee River

14  Project, the Ten Mile Creek Project, the Water Preserve Areas,

15  the Southern Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed Project,

16  the Pal-Mar Project, and the C-111 Project are in the public

17  interest, for a public purpose, and necessary for the public

18  health and welfare. The governing board of the district is

19  empowered and authorized to acquire fee title or easement by

20  eminent domain for the limited purposes of implementing the

21  Kissimmee River Project, the Ten Mile Creek Project, the Water

22  Preserve Areas, the Southern Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem

23  Watershed Project, the Pal-Mar Project, and the C-111 Project.

24  Any acquisition of real property, including by eminent domain,

25  for those objectives constitutes a public purpose for which it

26  is in the public interest to expend public funds.

27  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, such

28  properties shall not be removed from the district's plan of

29  acquisition, and the use of state funds for these properties

30  is authorized. In the absence of willing sellers, any land

31  necessary for implementing the projects in this subsection

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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  1  shall be acquired in accordance with state condemnation law

  2  pursuant to chapters 73 and 74.

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  8  And the title is amended as follows:

  9         On page 58, line 3, before the word "amending"

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12         amending s. 373.1501, F.S.; providing

13         definitions; providing for acquisition of

14         certain land by eminent domain by the South

15         Florida Water Management District;

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