SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 2316
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 612366
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11  Senators Dockery and Atwater moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment 
14         In title, on page 1, line 2, after the semicolon,
15  through page 3, line 2, delete those lines
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17  and insert:
18         providing for the development of a water
19         conservation guidance manual by the Department
20         of Environmental Protection; providing for
21         purpose and contents of the manual and
22         requirements with respect thereto; requiring
23         the Department of Environmental Protection to
24         adopt the manual by rule by a specified date;
25         providing program requirements for public water
26         supply utilities that choose to design a
27         comprehensive water conservation program based
28         on the water conservation guidance manual;
29         amending s. 159.803, F.S.; revising the
30         definition of "priority project"; amending.
31         163.3167, F.S.; requiring local governments to
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 1         include projected water use in comprehensive
 2         plans; amending s. 367.081, F.S.; revising
 3         procedure for fixing and changing rates to
 4         include the recovery of costs of alternative
 5         water supply facilities; amending s. 367.0814,
 6         F.S.; revising limit on the amount of revenues
 7         received by a utility to qualify for staff
 8         assistance in changing rates or charges;
 9         amending s. 373.1963, F.S.; prohibiting the
10         West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority from
11         seeking permits from the South Florida Water
12         Management District for the consumptive use of
13         water from groundwater in a specified area;
14         amending s. 373.0361, F.S.; providing for a
15         public workshop on the development of regional
16         water supply plans that include the
17         consideration of population projections;
18         providing for a list of water source options in
19         regional water supply plans; providing
20         additional regional water supply plan
21         components; including conservation measures in
22         regional water supply plans; revising specified
23         reporting requirements of the Department of
24         Environmental Protection; providing that a
25         district water management plan may not be used
26         as criteria for the review of permits for
27         consumptive uses of water unless the plan or
28         applicable portion thereof has been adopted by
29         rule; providing construction; amending s.
30         373.0831, F.S.; revising the criteria by which
31         water supply development projects may receive
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 1         priority consideration for funding assistance;
 2         providing for permitting and funding of a
 3         proposed alternative water supply project
 4         identified in the relevant approved regional
 5         water supply plan; amending s. 373.1961, F.S.;
 6         providing funding priority; providing for the
 7         establishment of a revolving loan fund for
 8         alternative water supply projects; providing
 9         conditions for certain projects to receive
10         funding assistance; providing severability;
11         providing legislative findings with respect to
12         loss of property values due to the proximity of
13         a regional water reservoir; authorizing a cause
14         of action for a property owner; specifying a
15         period during which a property owner may
16         present a claim for compensation to the
17         regional water supply authority that
18         constructs, operates, and maintains the
19         reservoir; providing requirements for the offer
20         of compensation by a regional water supply
21         authority; providing for judicial review under
22         the Bert J. Harris, Jr., Private Property
23         Rights Protection Act; providing for an award
24         of costs and attorney's fees; providing for
25         future repeal of the section; providing for
26         applicability; creating s. 373.2234, F.S.;
27         authorizing the governing board of a water
28         management district to adopt rules identifying
29         certain preferred water supply sources;
30         providing requirements with respect to such
31         rules; providing construction; amending s.
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 1         373.250, F.S.; authorizing water management
 2         districts to require the use of reclaimed water
 3         in lieu of surface or groundwater when the use
 4         of uncommitted reclaimed water is
 5         environmentally, economically, and technically
 6         feasible; providing construction with respect
 7         to such authority; amending s. 373.536, F.S.;
 8         expanding requirements of the 5-year water
 9         resource development work program for water
10         management districts; providing legislative
11         findings and intent with regard to landscape
12         irrigation design; requiring water management
13         districts to develop landscape irrigation and
14         xeriscape design standards; amending s.
15         378.212, F.S.; providing for the granting of  a
16         variance from pt. III of ch. 378, F.S.,
17         relating to phosphate land reclamation, for
18         specified reclamation, and from pt. IV of ch.
19         373, for certain projects under described
20         circumstances; amending s. 378.404, F.S.;
21         authorizing the department to grant variances
22         from the provisions of part IV of chapter 378
23         to accommodate reclamation that provides for
24         water supply development or water resource
25         development under specified circumstances;
26         amending s. 403.064, F.S.; revising provisions
27         relating to reuse feasibility studies;
28         providing for metering use of reclaimed water
29         and volume-based rates therefor; requiring
30         wastewater utilities to submit plans for
31         metering use and volume-based rate structures
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 1         to the department; amending s. 403.1835, F.S.;
 2         authorizing the Department of Environmental
 3         Protection to make specified deposits for the
 4         purpose of enabling below-market interest rate
 5         loans for treatment of polluted water; amending
 6         s. 403.1837, F.S.; deleting certain
 7         restrictions on the issuance of bonds by the
 8         Florida Water Pollution Control Financing
 9         Corporation; providing for a study of the
10         feasibility of discharging reclaimed wastewater
11         into canals and the aquifer system in a
12         specified area as an environmentally acceptable
13         means of accomplishing described objectives;
14         requiring reports; providing an effective date.
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