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Crist is asking governing boards and executive directorsa of the districts to continue to includes surface water and consumptive use permitds on all board meeting and otheer publicmeeting agendas, despite a measure in the bill that delegatesz final agency action on such permits solely to the executive directors. Florida is brokeh up into five watermanagement districts. The Southwesf Florida Water Management District, or covers Tampa Bay. Other are the Northwest Florida WaterManagemenf District, Suwannee River Management District, St. Johns River Watert Management District and the Soutb Florida WaterManagement District.
It was the Southb Florida agency, which covers all of the southern Floridas region and into the central part of the statew including parts of Polk andOrange counties, that Crist singled out in a letter to Secretarg of State Kurt S. Browning. “I want to acknowledgre the continued work of the South Floridqa Water Management District in completingthe U.S. Sugar land acquisition whicbh will preserve the Florida Everglades for generationzto come,” Crist said. “II thank the members of the governing board as well as the dedicateed staff of the district in ensuringa long-awaited goal of cleaning and moving water from Lake Okeechobee to Evergladesa National Park.
The Evergladese remain a natural treasur and this administration remainse committed to workingwith local, state and federal partnerws in protecting the River of S.B. 2080 passed the Housee 117-0 on May 1 and passed the Senate 39-0 on April 30.