Resolution 012-1980
RESOLUTION NO. 12 - 1980
RESOLUTION REQUESTING WAIVER OF BIOLO-
GICAL OR ECOLOGICAL STUDY FROM BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF THE IN~ERNAL IMPROVEMENT
TRUST FUND FOR THE COUNTY'S BOOT KEY
HARBOR PROJECT IN MARATHON, FLORIDA.
WHEREAS, Monroe County has, since 1950, been pursuing the
development of the Boot Key Harbor Project located in Marathon,
Florida to provide for deepening and widening of a channel from
a point in Hawk Channel South of Knight Key to a proposed turning
basin approximately 750 feet easterly and west of Boot Key Bridge
to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of
Monroe County, its visitors and to provide a safe harbor for marine
activities, and
WHEREAS, Monroe County has been advised by the Department
of the Army, Corps of Engineers that funding for said project is
now available such that the construction of the project can be
started during the Fiscal Year 1979-1980, and if the same not be
so commenced, the funds shall be permanently withdrawn, and
WHEREAS, there exists compelling and overriding governmental
purpose justification for said Boot Key Project which is urgently
needed to provide a safe harbor for the increased marine activities
in the area, and
WHEREAS, Monroe County has applied for the necessary dredge
permtts from the Department of Envirpnmental Regulation (DER File
No. 44-20174) and said Department has indicated informally that
without consideration of the projects' governmental purpose and
need the Department would decline to issue a dredge permit upon a
pure biological assessment basis, now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA AS FOLLOWS:
1. That there presently exists a compelling and. over-
riding County purpose and need for the safe harbor and turning
basin which would be established by the project and the Board so
declares such an overriding need to exist so that the adverse
ecological and biological effects to be occasioned by the
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dredging activities of Monroe County are greatly outweighed by
the benefits obtained to the citizens and visitors to Monroe
County, Florida.
2. That the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement
Trust Fund of the State of Florida is hereby requested, pursuant
to Florida Statute 253.123 (3) (a), to waive a biological and
eco~ogical study and to issue the Board of County Commissioners
a dredge permit for the Boot Key Harbor Project.
3. That the Board of County Commissioners hereby commits
that should said waiver be obtained that it will take every
stringent effort to minimize the adverse environmental and
biological impacts that may be occasioned from this project.
4. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk shall forward
a true and correct copy of the foregoing Resolution to the
Honorable Robert Graham, Governor of the State of Florida; the
Honorable George Firestone, Secretary of State; the Honorable
Jim Smith, Attorney General; the Honorable Gerald A. "Jerry"
Lewis, Comptroller; the Honorable Bill Gunter, Treasurer; the
Honorable Ralph Turlington, Commissioner 9f Education and the
Honorable Doyle Conner, Commissioner of Agriculture.
RESOLVED in regular meeting at Plantation Key, Monroe
County, Florida this 3rd day of Januar~ A.D. 1979.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By:
MR~"
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