Central Florida Water Initiative

Central Florida Water Initiative; Ratifying specified rules relating to the Central Florida Water Initiative, for the sole and exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness pursuant to s. 120.541(3), F.S., which requires ratification of any rule exceeding any specified thresholds for likely adverse impact or increase in regulatory costs; requiring the department, in consultation with specified water management districts, to adopt rules that include an annual drought allocation for supplemental irrigation for agricultural uses and a process for examining an agricultural user’s supplemental irrigation needs as weighed against certain factors; establishing, subject to appropriation, a Central Florida Water Initiative grant program within the department; requiring the department to give funding priority to certain projects relating to the Central Florida Water Initiative, etc.