Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 244
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Soto moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 33 - 72
    4  and insert:
    5         (2)(a) By November 15, 1997, and annually thereafter, each
    6  water management district shall submit to the department for
    7  review and approval a priority list and schedule for the
    8  establishment of minimum flows and levels for surface
    9  watercourses, aquifers, and surface waters within the district.
   10  The priority list and schedule must shall also identify those
   11  listed water bodies for which the district will voluntarily
   12  undertake independent scientific peer review; any reservations
   13  proposed by the district to be established pursuant to s.
   14  373.223(4); and those listed water bodies that have the
   15  potential to be affected by withdrawals in an adjacent district
   16  for which the department’s adoption of a reservation pursuant to
   17  s. 373.223(4) or a minimum flow or level pursuant to subsection
   18  (1) may be appropriate.
   19         (b) By March 1, 2006, and annually thereafter, each water
   20  management district shall include its approved priority list and
   21  schedule in the consolidated annual report required by s.
   22  373.036(7). The priority list must shall be based upon the
   23  importance of the waters to the state or region and the
   24  existence of or potential for significant harm to the water
   25  resources or ecology of the state or region, and must shall
   26  include those waters that which are experiencing or may
   27  reasonably be expected to experience adverse impacts. Each water
   28  management district’s priority list and schedule must shall
   29  include all first magnitude springs, and all second magnitude
   30  springs within state or federally owned lands purchased for
   31  conservation purposes. The specific schedule for establishment
   32  of spring minimum flows and levels must shall be commensurate
   33  with the existing or potential threat to spring flow from
   34  consumptive uses. Springs within the Suwannee River Water
   35  Management District, or second magnitude springs in other areas
   36  of the state, need not be included on the priority list if the
   37  water management district submits a report to the Department of
   38  Environmental Protection demonstrating that adverse impacts are
   39  not now occurring and nor are not reasonably expected to occur
   40  from consumptive uses during the next 20 years. The priority
   41  list and schedule are shall not be subject to any proceeding
   42  pursuant to chapter 120. Except as provided in subsection (3),
   43  the development of a priority list and compliance with the
   44  schedule for the establishment of minimum flows and levels
   45  pursuant to this subsection satisfy shall satisfy the
   46  requirements of subsection (1).
   47         (c) Beginning January 1, 2014, and quarterly thereafter,
   48  each water management district shall submit a report on the
   49  progress of spring restoration efforts to the Governor, the
   50  President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
   51  Representatives.
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   53  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   54         And the title is amended as follows:
   55         Delete line 5
   56  and insert:
   57         bodies in priority lists and schedules; requiring
   58         water management districts to submit a quarterly
   59         report to the Governor and the Legislature; providing
   60         for