The Florida Senate

¹373.197  Kissimmee River Valley and Taylor Creek-Nubbins Slough Basin restoration project; measures authorized.--

(1)  The Legislature hereby directs the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, in conjunction with the South Florida Water Management District, to seek appropriate authorization by the Congress of the United States for a restudy of the Kissimmee River Valley and the Taylor Creek-Nubbins Slough Basin.

(2)  The Legislature recommends that the authorization provide that the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under s. 3 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, approved June 13, 1902, be directed to review the report of the Chief of Engineers on Central and Southern Florida, published as House Document Numbered 643, Eightieth Congress, and other pertinent reports, with a view to determining whether any modification of the recommendations contained therein and of the system of works constructed pursuant thereto is advisable with respect to questions of the quality of water entering the Kissimmee River and Taylor Creek-Nubbins Slough and Lake Okeechobee therefrom, flood control, recreation, navigation, loss of fish and wildlife resources, other current and foreseeable environmental problems, and loss of environmental amenities in those areas. Potential modification alternatives, if any, shall include, but not be limited to, consideration of restoration of all or parts of the Kissimmee River below Lake Kissimmee and of the Taylor Creek-Nubbins Slough Basin.

(3)  The department and the Water Management District shall also seek to assure that this restudy be conducted by the Corps of Engineers in close cooperation with the Coordinating Council on the Restoration of the Kissimmee River Valley and the Taylor Creek-Nubbins Slough Basin and that the study be responsive to the problems and needs identified by the Coordinating Council and consider development of detailed physical and mathematical models to assess and predict these identified problems.

History.--s. 1, ch. 77-404; s. 260, ch. 94-356.

¹Note.--Section 260, ch. 94-356, purported to amend s. 373.197, but failed to publish the section to include subsections (2) and (3). In the absence of affirmative evidence of intent to repeal the omitted material, the section is published in full here, pending clarification by the Legislature.