HB 0697 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Natural Resources recommends the following:
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8	Committee Substitute
9	Remove the entire bill and insert:
10	A bill to be entitled
11	An act relating to state reserves; creating s. 258.166,
12	F.S.; establishing the Rodman Reservoir State Reserve;
13	directing the Division of Recreation and Parks of the
14	Department of Environmental Protection to develop
15	multipurpose recreational opportunities and provide
16	supervision of the area; allowing public hunting;
17	authorizing the Division of State Lands to acquire
18	adjacent or contiguous property; requiring the Division of
19	State Lands to notify persons with easements in the area;
20	requiring a report; providing an effective date.
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22	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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24	Section 1. Section 258.166, Florida Statutes, is created
25	to read:
26	258.166 Rodman Reservoir State Reserve designated.--There
27	is designated and established a state reserve to be known as
28	Rodman Reservoir State Reserve, in Marion and Putnam Counties,
29	which shall include all state-owned lands within the floodplain
30	of the Oklawaha River and those hereafter acquired by the state
31	from Eureka Dam in Marion County to Buckman Lock in Putnam
32	County. Those lands are deemed and held to be a state reserve,
33	under the supervision of the Division of Recreation and Parks of
34	the Department of Environmental Protection. The division is
35	charged with the duty of providing for the development of
36	multipurpose recreational opportunities at this reserve and the
37	care, upkeep, maintenance, and beautification of the Rodman
38	Reservoir State Reserve, including all those dams, locks, and
39	other structures transferred by the Federal Government to the
40	state. Any action that would substantially alter the area
41	encompassing the reserve as it existed on January 1, 2003, must
42	be approved by law, provided that nothing in this section shall
43	preclude the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department
44	of Environmental Protection from performing necessary
45	maintenance and improvements as required for the continued
46	operation of the dams, locks, or other structures and facilities
47	within the state reserve.
48	(1) Public hunting is allowed in the state reserve as
49	authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
50	(2) The Division of State Lands of the Department of
51	Environmental Protection may acquire in the name of the Board of
52	Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund any additional
53	property adjacent or contiguous to the Rodman Reservoir State
54	Reserve from private owners or from the United States Government
55	for improved management and recreational opportunities.
56	(3) The Division of State Lands shall identify, contact,
57	and inform all property owners who hold easements located within
58	the taking line of the Rodman Reservoir of the designation of
59	this area as a state reserve.
60	(4) By January 1, 2004, the Division of State Lands shall
61	submit a report to the Executive Office of the Governor, the
62	President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
63	Representatives which:
64	(a) Identifies the entities that hold easements within the
65	taking line of the reservoir.
66	(b) Indicates whether the holder of an easement is willing
67	to sell the easement.
68	(c) Estimates the cost of acquiring the easements.
69	(d) Identifies any additional issues resulting from this
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71	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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