Florida SB 302: Dental Services

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302 
Coastal Resiliency 
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Prohibiting the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund from approving the dredging or filling of the submerged lands of the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve unless such dredging and filling occurs for certain reasons; authorizing certain dredging and filling of submerged lands and placement of certain shorelines and seawalls within the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve; authorizing the erection of certain structures within aquatic preserves; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, by a specified date, to develop guidelines and standards for nature-based methods to address coastal resiliency and to adopt rules, subject to legislative ratification, for a statewide permitting process for such coastal resiliency, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to coastal resiliency; amending s. 
 3 258.393, F.S.; prohibiting the Board of Trustees of 
 4 the Internal Improvement Trust Fund from approving the 
 5 dredging or filling of the submerged lands of the 
 6 Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve unless such dredging and 
 7 filling occurs for certain reasons; requiring public 
 8 notice for the approval of dredging and filling for 
 9 certain reasons; amending s. 258.397, F.S.; 
 10 authorizing certain dredging and filling of submerged 
 11 lands and placement of certain shorelines and seawalls 
 12 within the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve; amending s. 
 13 258.42, F.S.; authorizing the erection of certain 
 14 structures within aquatic preserves; creating s. 
 15 380.0938, F.S.; requiring the Department of 
 16 Environmental Protection, by a specified date, to 
 17 develop guidelines and standards for nature-based 
 18 methods to address coastal resiliency and to adopt 
 19 rules, subject to legislative ratification, for a 
 20 statewide permitting process for such coastal 
 21 resiliency; providing requirements for such rules; 
 22 requiring the department and local governments to 
 23 promote public awareness and education on nature-based 
 24 solutions for coastal resiliency; providing an 
 25 effective date. 
 26 
 27 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 28 
 29 Section 1. Section 258.393, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 30 read: 
 31 258.393 Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve wastewater or effluent 
 32 discharge activities.— 
 33 (1) The following described area in Manatee County is 
 34 hereby designated by the Legislature for inclusion in the 
 35 aquatic preserve system under the Florida Aquatic Preserve Act 
 36 of 1975. Such area, to be known as the Terra Ceia Aquatic 
 37 Preserve, shall be included in the aquatic preserve system and 
 38 shall include the following described real property: Begin at a 
 39 point 165 feet north of the southwest corner of the northwest 
 40 quarter of Section 12, Township 33 South, Range 17 East, Manatee 
 41 County, thence run west to the mean high-water line of Tampa 
 42 Bay, said point being the point of beginning. From said point of 
 43 beginning, run northwesterly into the waters of Tampa Bay and 
 44 parallel to the Port Manatee ship channel to the Manatee 
 45 Hillsborough county line; thence run southwest along the 
 46 Manatee-Hillsborough county line to its intersection with the 
 47 Intracoastal Waterway; thence run south-southwesterly along the 
 48 Intracoastal Waterway to a point on a line connecting the 
 49 westernmost tip of Snead Island (Manatee County) to the 
 50 southernmost tip of Mullet Key (Pinellas County); thence run 
 51 southeasterly along said line to the westernmost tip of Snead 
 52 Island (also known as Emerson Point); thence run in a 
 53 northeasterly direction along the mean high-water line of Tampa 
 54 Bay, Terra Ceia Bay, where the mean high water line intersects 
 55 the north line of U.S. Government Lot 4, Section 16, Township 34 
 56 South, Range 17 East; thence east along the said north line of 
 57 U.S. Government Lot 4 and the easterly extension thereof a 
 58 distance of 1,111 feet more or less to the mean high water line 
 59 at a seawall; thence meander in a northwesterly, westerly, 
 60 northerly direction along the seawall of a canal; thence in a 
 61 northeasterly direction along the mean high water line of Miguel 
 62 Bay, Joe Bay, and Bishop Harbor to the point of beginning, 
 63 including tidal waters of all tributaries; less all privately 
 64 titled submerged lands and uplands. 
 65 (2) Wastewater or effluent discharge activities from an 
 66 existing stationary facility or existing stationary installation 
 67 which has been approved pursuant to state law or federal law or 
 68 for which facility or installation an application has been filed 
 69 before June 24, 1984, are exempt from the requirements of this 
 70 chapter. 
 71 (3) No further dredging or filling of the submerged lands 
 72 of the Terra Ceia