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ENROLLED HB 5001, ENGROSSED 1 2024 LEGISLATURE ______________________________________________________________________________ SECTION 5 - NATURAL RESOURCES/ENVIRONMENT/GROWTH MANAGEMENT/TRANSPORTATION Kilroy Network Expansion. 1708 SPECIAL CATEGORIES GRANTS AND AIDS - INDIAN RIVER LAGOON AND LAKE OKEECHOBEE BASIN - OPERATIONS FROM LAND ACQUISITION TRUST FUND . . 350,000 Funds in Specific Appropriation 1708 are provided for operations and maintenance for five Indian River Lagoon Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory water quality instruments for the St. Lucie Estuary and surrounding Indian River Lagoon areas (recurring base appropriations project). 1709 SPECIAL CATEGORIES TRANSFER TO THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT - DISPERSED WATER STORAGE FROM LAND ACQUISITION TRUST FUND . . 5,000,000 1710 SPECIAL CATEGORIES TRANSFER TO DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES - HUMAN RESOURCES SERVICES PURCHASED PER STATEWIDE CONTRACT FROM LAND ACQUISITION TRUST FUND . . 6,522 1711 FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS MITIGATION FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 10,000,000 Funds in Specific Appropriation 1711 are provided to the Department of Environmental Protection to competitively procure water quality treatment technologies to combat harmful algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee as determined by the Department. 1712 FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY DEBT SERVICE - SAVE OUR EVERGLADES BONDS FROM LAND ACQUISITION TRUST FUND . . 22,511,330 Funds in Specific Appropriation 1712 are provided for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 debt service on bonds authorized pursuant to section 215.619, Florida Statutes, including any other continuing payments necessary or incidental to the repayment of the bonds. These funds may be used to refinance any or all series if it is in the best interest of the state as determined by the Division of Bond Finance. If the debt service varies as a result of a change in the interest rate, timing of issuance, or other circumstances, there is appropriated from the Land Acquisition Trust Fund an amount sufficient to pay such debt service. 1712A GRANTS AND AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND NONSTATE ENTITIES - FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY CALOOSAHATCHEE RIVER VALUED ECOSYSTEM COMPONENT RESTORATION FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 3,500,000 From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1712A, $3,500,000 in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is provided for the Caloosahatchee River Valued Ecosystem Component Restoration Project Phase 6 (HF 2973) (SF 3341). 1712B GRANTS AND AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND NONSTATE ENTITIES - FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY GRANTS AND AIDS - ST. JOHNS RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT OPERATING SUPPORT FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 5,000,000 1714 GRANTS AND AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND NONSTATE ENTITIES - FIXED CAPITAL OUTLAY GRANTS AND AIDS - INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 10,000,000 Funds in Specific Appropriation 1714 are provided to the Department of Environmental Protection for the purpose of supporting the evaluation and implementation of innovative technologies and short-term solutions to combat or clean up harmful algal blooms and nutrient enrichment of Florida’s fresh waterbodies, including lakes, rivers, estuaries and canals. Funds may be used for the Department’s red tide emergency grant program to support local governments in cleaning beaches and coastal 277