HOUSE AMENDMENT
                             Bill No. CS/HBs 1617 & 1487, 1st Eng.
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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11  Representative(s) Greenstein offered the following:
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13         Amendment to Amendment (363067) (with title amendment) 
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17         Section 1.  Subsection (12) of section 403.503, Florida
18  Statutes, is amended to read:
19         403.503  Definitions relating to Florida Electrical
20  Power Plant Siting Act.--As used in this act:
21         (12)  "Electrical power plant" means, for the purpose
22  of certification, any steam or solar electrical generating
23  facility using any process or fuel, including nuclear
24  materials, and includes associated facilities which directly
25  support the construction and operation of the electrical power
26  plant and those associated transmission lines which connect
27  the electrical power plant to an existing transmission network
28  or rights-of-way to which the applicant intends to connect,
29  except that this term does not include any steam or solar
30  electrical generating facility of less than 75 megawatts in
31  capacity unless the applicant for such a facility elects to
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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT
                             Bill No. CS/HBs 1617 & 1487, 1st Eng.
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
 1  apply for certification under this act or proposes to site the
 2  facility within any area comprising at least 20 square miles
 3  with an average population density of at least 3,000 persons
 4  per square mile.  An associated transmission line may include,
 5  at the applicant's option, any proposed terminal or
 6  intermediate substations or substation expansions connected to
 7  the associated transmission line.
 8         Section 2.  Subsection (1) of section 403.506, Florida
 9  Statutes, is amended to read:
10         403.506  Applicability and certification.--
11         (1)  The provisions of this act shall apply to any
12  electrical power plant as defined herein, except that the
13  provisions of this act shall not apply to any electrical power
14  plant or steam generating plant of less than 75 megawatts in
15  capacity or to any substation to be constructed as part of an
16  associated transmission line unless the applicant has elected
17  to apply for certification of such plant or substation under
18  this act or proposes to site such plant within any area
19  comprising at least 20 square miles with an average population
20  density of at least 3,000 persons per square mile. No
21  construction of any new electrical power plant or expansion in
22  steam generating capacity of any existing electrical power
23  plant may be undertaken after October 1, 1973, without first
24  obtaining certification in the manner as herein provided,
25  except that this act shall not apply to any such electrical
26  power plant which is presently operating or under construction
27  or which has, upon the effective date of chapter 73-33, Laws
28  of Florida, applied for a permit or certification under
29  requirements in force prior to the effective date of such act.
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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT
                             Bill No. CS/HBs 1617 & 1487, 1st Eng.
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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 2  And the title is amended as follows:
 3         On page 88, line 19, of the amendment
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 6         amending s. 403.503, F.S.; revising a
 7         definition; amending s. 403.506, F.S.;
 8         providing an additional exception to
 9         application for certain power plants;
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