Florida Senate - 2022 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1432
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Rodriguez)
recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment
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3 Delete lines 47 - 102
4 and insert:
5 County on waters of this state within 10 linear nautical miles
6 of a public mooring field or a designated anchoring area must
7 pull anchor and be moved from its location using the vessel’s
8 propulsion system and be re-anchored in a new location. The new
9 location must be:
10 1. No less than one-half linear nautical mile from the
11 vessel’s starting location. A vessel may not be re-anchored
12 within one-half linear nautical mile from the vessel’s starting
13 location for at least 90 days; or
14 2. In a different designated anchoring area. A vessel may
15 not be re-anchored in its originating designated anchoring area
16 for at least 90 days after anchoring within a new designated
17 anchoring area. The commission shall adopt rules to implement
18 this subsection.
19 (b) The commission, in consultation with Monroe County and
20 the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, shall establish by
21 rule designated anchoring areas throughout the county. The
22 designated anchoring areas must:
23 1. Specify a maximum vessel draft for each area;
24 2. Be created only in locations where the water depth is
25 sufficient to allow vessels whose drafts are less than the
26 area’s specified maximum vessel draft to navigate into and out
27 of the areas without grounding or stranding;
28 3. Not be located over coral reefs or other sensitive fish
29 or wildlife habitat, to the maximum extent practicable, as
30 determined by the commission;
31 4. Not be located in an area subject to ongoing hazardous
32 water currents or tides or containing navigational hazards; and
33 5. Not be located within navigational channels, setbacks
34 established by the United States Army Corps of Engineers
35 associated with federal channels, areas where anchoring is
36 prohibited pursuant to s. 327.4109, or any other lawfully
37 established areas that prohibit anchoring.
38 (c) Paragraph (a) does The anchoring limitations in this
39 subsection do not apply to vessels moored to approved and
40 permitted moorings or mooring fields.
41 (d)(c) A vessel upon the waters of this state and within
42 Monroe County for which the owner or occupant has established
43 the vessel as a domicile in accordance with s. 222.17 is exempt
44 from paragraph (a) Notwithstanding the commission rules adopted
45 pursuant to this section, this section is not effective for
46 Monroe County until at least 100 the county approves, permits,
47 and opens new moorings are available for public use, including
48 at least 250 moorings within 1 mile of the Key West Bight City
49 Dock and at least 50 moorings within the Key West Garrison Bight
50 Mooring Field. Until such time, the commission shall designate
51 the area within 1 mile of the Key West Bight City Dock as a
52 priority for the investigation and removal of derelict vessels.
53 (e) All of the following vessels within Monroe County on
54 waters of this state which are equipped with a marine sanitation
55 device other than a marine composting toilet that processes and
56 manages human waste using technologies that comply with United
57 States Coast Guard requirements must maintain a record of the
58 date of each pumpout of the marine sanitation device and the
59 location of the pumpout station or waste reception facility for
60 1 year after the date of the pumpout, and the record must
61 indicate that the vessel was pumped out within the last 30 days: