Bill Amendment: FL S1684 | 2013 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Environmental Regulation

Status: 2013-05-02 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 999 (Ch. 2013-92) [S1684 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1684-Appropriations_Subcommittee_on_General_Government_Committee_Amendment_to_Amendment_331970.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1684
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/17/2013           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (Latvala)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (736210) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 328 - 354
    5  and insert:
    6  well contractor license required for the location, construction,
    7  repair, or abandonment of water wells in the state or any
    8  political subdivision thereof.
    9         (10) Water well contractors licensed under this section may
   10  install, repair, and modify pumps and tanks in accordance with
   11  the Florida Building Code, Plumbing; Section 612—Wells pumps and
   12  tanks used for private potable water systems. In addition,
   13  licensed water well contractors may install pumps, tanks, and
   14  water conditioning equipment for all water well systems.
   15         Section 14. Subsections (13) through (15) are added to
   16  section 373.406, Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         373.406 Exemptions.—The following exemptions shall apply:
   18         (13) Nothing in this part, or in any rule, regulation, or
   19  order adopted pursuant to this part, applies to the
   20  construction, alteration, operation, or maintenance of any
   21  wholly owned, manmade, excavated farm ponds, as defined in s.
   22  403.927, constructed entirely in uplands. Alteration or
   23  maintenance may not involve any work to connect the farm pond
   24  to, or expand the farm pond into, other wetlands or other
   25  surface waters.
   26         (14) Nothing in this part, or in any rule, regulation, or
   27  order adopted pursuant to this part, may require a permit for
   28  activities affecting wetlands created solely by the unauthorized
   29  flooding or interference with the natural flow of surface water
   30  caused by an unaffiliated adjoining landowner. Requests to
   31  qualify for this exemption must be made within 7 years after the
   32  cause of such unauthorized flooding or unauthorized interference
   33  with the natural flow of surface water and must be submitted in
   34  writing to the district or department. Such activities may not
   35  begin without a written determination from the district or
   36  department confirming that
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39         And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete lines 817 - 823
   41  and insert:
   42         districts are the only water well contractor licenses
   43         required for location, construction, repair, or
   44         abandonment of water wells; authorizing licensed water
   45         well contractors to install equipment for all water
   46         systems; amending s. 373.406, F.S.; exempting
   47         specified ponds and wetlands from surface water
   48         management and storage