Bill Text: FL S0770 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits/Consumptive Use of Water/Commercial Profit [EPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation [S0770 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0770-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 770 
 
By Senator Lynn 
7-00447A-10                                            2010770__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to a moratorium on permits for the 
3         consumptive use of water for commercial profit; 
4         amending s. 373.219, F.S.; prohibiting until July 1, 
5         2020, the governing board of a water management 
6         district or the Department of Environmental Protection 
7         from approving an application for a required permit if 
8         the applicant intends to resell the water for a 
9         commercial profit; providing an effective date. 
10 
11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
12 
13         Section 1. Section 373.219, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
14  read: 
15         373.219 Permits required; moratorium on issuing permits.— 
16         (1)(a) The governing board or the department may require 
17  such permits for consumptive use of water and may impose such 
18  reasonable conditions as are necessary to ensure assure that 
19  such use is consistent with the overall objectives of the 
20  district or department and is not harmful to the water resources 
21  of the area. However, no permit shall be required for domestic 
22  consumption of water by individual users. 
23         (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, 
24  the governing board or the department may not approve until July 
25  1, 2020, an application for an otherwise required permit for the 
26  consumptive use of water if the applicant for the permit 
27  proposes to purchase the water with the intent to resell the 
28  water to the consuming public for a commercial profit. 
29         (2) In the event that any person shall file a complaint 
30  with the governing board or the department that any other person 
31  is making a diversion, withdrawal, impoundment, or consumptive 
32  use of water not expressly exempted under the provisions of this 
33  chapter and without a permit to do so, the governing board or 
34  the department shall cause an investigation to be made, and if 
35  the facts stated in the complaint are verified the governing 
36  board or the department shall order the discontinuance of the 
37  use. 
38         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.