Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 852
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  04/06/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Ring) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 44 and 45
    4  insert:
    5         (5) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, permit
    6  applications for projects to be located in a charter county that
    7  has a population of 1.2 million or more and has entered into a
    8  delegation agreement with the Department of Environmental
    9  Protection or the applicable water management district to
   10  process environmental resource permits, wetland resource
   11  management permits, or surface water management permits pursuant
   12  to chapter 373, are eligible for expedited permitting under this
   13  section only upon designation by resolution of the charter
   14  county’s governing board. Before the governing board decides
   15  that a project is eligible for expedited permitting, it may
   16  require the county’s economic development agency, or such other
   17  agency that provides advice to the governing board on economic
   18  matters, to review and recommend whether the project meets the
   19  definition of a target industry business, as defined in s.
   20  288.106, and to identify the tangible benefits and impacts of
   21  the project. The governing board’s decision shall be made
   22  without consideration of the project’s geographic location
   23  within the charter county. If the governing board designates the
   24  project as a target industry business, the permit application
   25  for the project shall be approved or denied within the timeframe
   26  provided in subsection (4).
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   29         And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete line 12
   31  and insert:
   32  permit application approval or denial; providing that projects
   33  designated as target industry businesses and located in charter
   34  counties that meet certain criteria are eligible for expedited
   35  permitting; providing an