HM 1171

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to fully authorize the conditionally approved
4	projects in section 601 of the Water Resources Development
5	Act of 2000 and the Indian River Lagoon and Picayune
6	Strand projects in the Comprehensive Everglades
7	Restoration Plan and to provide funding for the federal
8	share of the full and equal partnership.
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10	WHEREAS, the Everglades is one of the most unique and
11	fragile ecosystems in the world, and
12	WHEREAS, the Legislature and the Congress of the United
13	States have long recognized that the Everglades is imperiled and
14	must be restored, and
15	WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was
16	approved by Congress as a framework for restoration of the
17	Everglades in the Water Resources Development Act of 2000, and
18	WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan will
19	restore more than 2.4 million acres of the south Florida
20	ecosystem while meeting the other water-related needs of the
21	region, and
22	WHEREAS, the Legislature and the governing board of the
23	South Florida Water Management District have appropriated more
24	than $2 billion to implement the Comprehensive Everglades
25	Restoration Plan since the passage of the Water Resources
26	Development Act of 2000, and
27	WHEREAS, the Legislature and the governing board of the
28	South Florida Water Management District have provided more than
29	90 percent of the funding to implement the plan, and the South
30	Florida Water Management District has begun construction on the
31	initial conditionally authorized projects, and
32	WHEREAS, the Water Resources Development Act of 2000
33	approved the restoration plan as a full and equal partnership
34	between the state government and the Federal Government, and
35	WHEREAS, the Indian River Lagoon and Picayune Strand
36	projects and 10 conditionally authorized projects require
37	authorization from Congress, NOW, THEREFORE,
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39	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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41	That the Congress of the United States is requested to
42	fully authorize the conditionally approved projects in section
43	601 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 and the
44	Indian River Lagoon and Picayune Strand projects in the
45	Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan and to provide funding
46	for the federal share of the full and equal partnership.
47	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
48	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
49	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
50	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
51	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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