HB 0697 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Appropriations 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 George Kirkpatrick State Reserve;
13	directing the Office of Greenways and Trails 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 adjacent
18	or contiguous property; providing an effective date.
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20	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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22	Section 1. Section 258.166, Florida Statutes, is created
23	to read:
24	258.166 George Kirkpatrick State Reserve designated.—There
25	is designated and established a state reserve to be known as
26	George Kirkpatrick State Reserve, in Marion and Putnam Counties,
27	which shall include all state-owned lands within the floodplain
28	of the Oklawaha River and those lands hereafter acquired by the
29	state from Eureka Dam in Marion County to Buckman Lock in Putnam
30	County. Those lands are deemed and held to be a state reserve,
31	under the supervision of the Office of Greenways and Trails of
32	the Department of Environmental Protection. The office is
33	charged with the duty of providing for the development of
34	multipurpose recreational opportunities at this reserve and the
35	care, upkeep, maintenance, and beautification of the George
36	Kirkpatrick State Reserve, including all those dams, locks, and
37	other structures transferred by the Federal Government to the
38	state. Any action that would substantially alter the area
39	encompassing the reserve as the area existed on January 1, 2003,
40	must be approved by general law. However, nothing in this
41	section precludes the Office of Greenways and Trails of the
42	Department of Environmental Protection from performing necessary
43	maintenance and improvements as required for the continued
44	operation of the dams, locks, or other structures and facilities
45	within the state reserve.
46	(1) Public hunting is allowed in the state reserve as
47	authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
48	(2) The Division of State Lands of the Department of
49	Environmental Protection may acquire in the name of the Board of
50	Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund any additional
51	property adjacent or contiguous to the George Kirkpatrick State
52	Reserve from private owners or from the United States Government
53	for improved management and recreational opportunities.
54	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.