The issue to be determined in this case is whether proposed Florida Administrative Code Rule 62-304.305(5) is an invalid exercise of delegated legislative authority.DEP failed to prove that the proposed rule, which would establish a Total Maximum Daily Load for nutrients in Lake Talquin, was not an invalid exercise of delegated legislative authority.

The issue to be determined in this case is whether the Administrative Order issued by DEP on December 23, 2014, is a reasonable exercise of its enforcement authority.The Administrative Order issued by the Department is an unreasonable exercise of its enforcement authority because the Order does not require compliance with the law or specify a reasonable time for compliance.

The issues in this case are: Whether computer software purchases by the Charlotte County School District (District or Petitioner) in fiscal year 2008-09, paid for with capital outlay millage funds or interest earned on capital outlay millage funds, were authorized equipment purchases under the version of section 1011.71(2)(d), Florida Statutes (2008), existing at the time of the purchases;1 Whether interest earnings on capital outlay millage proceeds are subject to the same expenditure restrictions as the millage proceeds; and Whether the Department of Education's (Department or Respondent) position that the District violated the expenditure restrictions in section 1011.71(2) is impermissibly based on an unadopted rule. See § 120.57(1)(e), Fla. Stat. (2010).Respondent did not meet its burden of proving Petitioner's 2008 computer software purchases violated expenditure restrictions in section 1011.71(2), but did prove such a violation as to a 2009 purchase made after the law changed.

The issue in this case is whether the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) should issue a Wetland Resource Permit (WRP), number 37-0281978-002-DF, to Blueprint 2000 for a project to widen Capital Circle (SR 263) in Tallahassee from just south of Orange Avenue to just south of Tennessee Street (US 90).Intergovernment agency met statute and rule criteria for WRP for Capital Circle widening.

Whether, pursuant to Part I of Chapter 161, Florida Statutes, and Florida Administrative Code Rule 62B-33, Respondent, Eric M. Flanagan (Flanagan), is entitled to construct a single-family dwelling seaward of the Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL).The applicant did not prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that he was entitled to build a single-family dwelling seaward of the Coastal Construction Control Line.

The issue is whether Petitioner is entitled to any funding, under the Florida Education Finance Program, for those full-time equivalent students whom Petitioner enrolled, taught, and initially reported, in a dropout prevention program, but whom Petitioner later reported in a lower-funded basic program after discovering that these full-time equivalent students exceeded the legislatively imposed enrollment ceiling applicable to the program group of which the dropout-prevention program is a part.Department of Education must fund school district`s over-the-cap special program Full-Time Equivalents as basic education Full-Time Equivalents, rather than zero-fund them.

The Governor and the Cabinet, acting as the trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (herein Trustees or Respondent) are responsible for protecting the public trust in the management and regulation of submerged sovereignty lands. By virtue of constitutional provisions, the Trustees may only grant leases or easements or convey any such sovereignty property held in public trust when doing so is in the public interest, Article X, Section 11 of the Florida Constitution as amended in 1970. The Trustees, in the process of reviewing applications for the use of sovereignty lands protected by the foregoing constitutional mandate and statutory provisions became concerned that allowing utilization of public lands to encourage, facilitate and enable development of unbridged islands could result in utilization of public lands which would be contrary to the public interest or otherwise not in the public interest. As a result of that concern, the Trustees commissioned Respondent to work in conjunction with other appropriate agencies to formulate and promulgate specific rule amendments regarding permitting of public trust lands for the purpose of facilitating development on coastal islands. Following the Trustees commission, Respondent held a series of workshops to address the concerns and to study the issues presented and formulated the subject proposed rule. During the interim, a temporary moratorium was implemented to defer pending applications regarding such unbridged coastal islands, which proposed rule amendments are now being challenged here by Petitioners. Following the conclusion of Petitioners' case, Respondent moved to dismiss as to all Petitioners for lack of standing and Intervenor Audubon moved for a directed verdict but later abandoned its motion. The motion to dismiss was briefed prior to submission of proposed final orders. That motion, as well as all pending motions, will be ruled upon herein. Petitioners qualified as expert witnesses, Erik Olsen in coastal engineering and civil engineering; James Nicholas in land economics; and Ross McWilliams in biology and marine biology and related state permitting issues. The Trustees qualified as expert witness, George Schmahl in biology, coastal ecology and coastal resource management. Intervenor, Sierra Club, qualified as expert Russell Nelson in fisheries and fisheries management. Intervenor Florida Audubon qualified as expert Mark Benedict in ecology specializing in coastal ecosystems and plant ecology and related natural resource management areas and Bernard Yokel in fisheries biology, estuarine ecology and related water quality impacts. Based on my consideration of the entire record compiled herein, the following relevant facts are found.

The Governor and the Cabinet, acting as the trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (herein Trustees or Respondent) are responsible for protecting the public trust in the management and regulation of submerged sovereignty lands. By virtue of constitutional provisions, the Trustees may only grant leases or easements or convey any such sovereignty property held in public trust when doing so is in the public interest, Article X, Section 11 of the Florida Constitution as amended in 1970. The Trustees, in the process of reviewing applications for the use of sovereignty lands protected by the foregoing constitutional mandate and statutory provisions became concerned that allowing utilization of public lands to encourage, facilitate and enable development of unbridged islands could result in utilization of public lands which would be contrary to the public interest or otherwise not in the public interest. As a result of that concern, the Trustees commissioned Respondent to work in conjunction with other appropriate agencies to formulate and promulgate specific rule amendments regarding permitting of public trust lands for the purpose of facilitating development on coastal islands. Following the Trustees commission, Respondent held a series of workshops to address the concerns and to study the issues presented and formulated the subject proposed rule. During the interim, a temporary moratorium was implemented to defer pending applications regarding such unbridged coastal islands, which proposed rule amendments are now being challenged here by Petitioners. Following the conclusion of Petitioners' case, Respondent moved to dismiss as to all Petitioners for lack of standing and Intervenor Audubon moved for a directed verdict but later abandoned its motion. The motion to dismiss was briefed prior to submission of proposed final orders. That motion, as well as all pending motions, will be ruled upon herein. Petitioners qualified as expert witnesses, Erik Olsen in coastal engineering and civil engineering; James Nicholas in land economics; and Ross McWilliams in biology and marine biology and related state permitting issues. The Trustees qualified as expert witness, George Schmahl in biology, coastal ecology and coastal resource management. Intervenor, Sierra Club, qualified as expert Russell Nelson in fisheries and fisheries management. Intervenor Florida Audubon qualified as expert Mark Benedict in ecology specializing in coastal ecosystems and plant ecology and related natural resource management areas and Bernard Yokel in fisheries biology, estuarine ecology and related water quality impacts. Based on my consideration of the entire record compiled herein, the following relevant facts are found.

The Governor and the Cabinet, acting as the trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (herein Trustees or Respondent) are responsible for protecting the public trust in the management and regulation of submerged sovereignty lands. By virtue of constitutional provisions, the Trustees may only grant leases or easements or convey any such sovereignty property held in public trust when doing so is in the public interest, Article X, Section 11 of the Florida Constitution as amended in 1970. The Trustees, in the process of reviewing applications for the use of sovereignty lands protected by the foregoing constitutional mandate and statutory provisions became concerned that allowing utilization of public lands to encourage, facilitate and enable development of unbridged islands could result in utilization of public lands which would be contrary to the public interest or otherwise not in the public interest. As a result of that concern, the Trustees commissioned Respondent to work in conjunction with other appropriate agencies to formulate and promulgate specific rule amendments regarding permitting of public trust lands for the purpose of facilitating development on coastal islands. Following the Trustees commission, Respondent held a series of workshops to address the concerns and to study the issues presented and formulated the subject proposed rule. During the interim, a temporary moratorium was implemented to defer pending applications regarding such unbridged coastal islands, which proposed rule amendments are now being challenged here by Petitioners. Following the conclusion of Petitioners' case, Respondent moved to dismiss as to all Petitioners for lack of standing and Intervenor Audubon moved for a directed verdict but later abandoned its motion. The motion to dismiss was briefed prior to submission of proposed final orders. That motion, as well as all pending motions, will be ruled upon herein. Petitioners qualified as expert witnesses, Erik Olsen in coastal engineering and civil engineering; James Nicholas in land economics; and Ross McWilliams in biology and marine biology and related state permitting issues. The Trustees qualified as expert witness, George Schmahl in biology, coastal ecology and coastal resource management. Intervenor, Sierra Club, qualified as expert Russell Nelson in fisheries and fisheries management. Intervenor Florida Audubon qualified as expert Mark Benedict in ecology specializing in coastal ecosystems and plant ecology and related natural resource management areas and Bernard Yokel in fisheries biology, estuarine ecology and related water quality impacts. Based on my consideration of the entire record compiled herein, the following relevant facts are found.

The Governor and the Cabinet, acting as the trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (herein Trustees or Respondent) are responsible for protecting the public trust in the management and regulation of submerged sovereignty lands. By virtue of constitutional provisions, the Trustees may only grant leases or easements or convey any such sovereignty property held in public trust when doing so is in the public interest, Article X, Section 11 of the Florida Constitution as amended in 1970. The Trustees, in the process of reviewing applications for the use of sovereignty lands protected by the foregoing constitutional mandate and statutory provisions became concerned that allowing utilization of public lands to encourage, facilitate and enable development of unbridged islands could result in utilization of public lands which would be contrary to the public interest or otherwise not in the public interest. As a result of that concern, the Trustees commissioned Respondent to work in conjunction with other appropriate agencies to formulate and promulgate specific rule amendments regarding permitting of public trust lands for the purpose of facilitating development on coastal islands. Following the Trustees commission, Respondent held a series of workshops to address the concerns and to study the issues presented and formulated the subject proposed rule. During the interim, a temporary moratorium was implemented to defer pending applications regarding such unbridged coastal islands, which proposed rule amendments are now being challenged here by Petitioners. Following the conclusion of Petitioners' case, Respondent moved to dismiss as to all Petitioners for lack of standing and Intervenor Audubon moved for a directed verdict but later abandoned its motion. The motion to dismiss was briefed prior to submission of proposed final orders. That motion, as well as all pending motions, will be ruled upon herein. Petitioners qualified as expert witnesses, Erik Olsen in coastal engineering and civil engineering; James Nicholas in land economics; and Ross McWilliams in biology and marine biology and related state permitting issues. The Trustees qualified as expert witness, George Schmahl in biology, coastal ecology and coastal resource management. Intervenor, Sierra Club, qualified as expert Russell Nelson in fisheries and fisheries management. Intervenor Florida Audubon qualified as expert Mark Benedict in ecology specializing in coastal ecosystems and plant ecology and related natural resource management areas and Bernard Yokel in fisheries biology, estuarine ecology and related water quality impacts. Based on my consideration of the entire record compiled herein, the following relevant facts are found.