Florida Administrative Code › 18 - BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT TRUST FUND › 18 - Departmental › Chapter 18-21 - SOVEREIGNTY SUBMERGED LANDS MANAGEMENT › Section 18-21.008 - Applications for Lease

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
Applications for the following categories of leases are found
				  in this section: standard, extended term, and oil and gas. Special event leases
				  are addressed in rule
				   18-21.0082, F.A.C.
(1) Standard Lease. The maximum initial term
				of a standard lease of sovereignty submerged lands for a private residential
				single-family dock or pier, private residential multi-family dock or pier, or
				private residential multislip dock shall be 10 years. For all other leases the
				term shall be 5 years. However, the term for leases for marinas where at least
				90 percent of the slips are maintained for rent to the public on a first-come,
				first-served basis shall be 10 years.
(a)
				Applications for leases shall include the following:
1. Name, address, email address, and
				telephone number of applicant and applicant's authorized agent, if
				applicable.
2. Location of the
				proposed activity including: county; section, township and range; affected
				waterbody; and a scaled aerial photograph of the vicinity.
3. Satisfactory evidence of sufficient upland
				interest to the extent required by paragraph
				 18-21.004(3)(b),
				F.A.C.
4. Either a survey (when the
				lease area is 3, 000 square feet or greater), or a sketch (when the lease area
				is less than 3, 000 square feet) prepared, signed, and sealed by a Florida
				registered Professional Surveyor and Mapper, and meeting the following
				requirements:
a. Use a scale necessary to
				provide sufficient legibility and clarity of detail on an 8 1/2" x 11" page
				size;
b. Show the approximate
				location of the ordinary or mean high water;
c. Show the linear footage of the
				shoreline;
d. Show the location of
				the shoreline vegetation, if existing;
e. Show the location of the proposed
				structures and any existing structures;
f. Show the applicant's upland parcel
				property lines and associated riparian rights lines;
g. Show the primary navigation channels or
				direction to the center of the affected waterbody;
h. Include a legal description of the
				preempted area to be leased;
i. For
				those lease applications in the Florida Keys, indicate the water depths
				referenced to mean low water within the lease area and out to the navigation
				channel;
j. Computation of the
				total square footage of preempted sovereignty land to be leased; and
k. For those lease applications in an Aquatic
				Preserve, describe the natural, seawalled, or riprapped condition along the
				proposed lease area plus 1, 000 feet on each side of the lease
				area.
5. Noticing
				information as required by subsection
				 18-21.005(3),
				F.A.C.
6. Information required by
				Form  18-21.008, Billing Information
				Form, March 2019, incorporated by reference and available at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-10252
,
				which provides billing information; sales tax information; and other data
				required in accordance with section
				 24.115(4), F.S.
				The form is also available from the Department's Internet site at
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/lands/files/submerged_billing_information_form.pdf
.
7. Payment of a $200.00 non-refundable
				processing fee for a private residential single-family dock or pier, or payment
				of a $500 non-refundable processing fee for all other facilities. The
				processing fee shall be revised annually on March 1 and increased or decreased
				based on the average change in the Consumer Price Index, calculated by
				averaging the Consumer Price Index over the previous five-year period, with a
				10 percent cap on any annual increase.
8. If dredging is proposed, an estimate of
				the number of cubic yards of sovereignty materials to be removed, showing how
				the amount was calculated.