Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-818 - FLORIDA FOREVER PROGRAM, GRANT APPLICATION PROCEDURES › Section 62-818.004 - Submission of Application and Application Materials

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Applications must be submitted by mail or
				delivery to the Florida Communities Trust, Department of Environmental
				Protection, 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard, MS #115, Tallahassee, FL 32399-3000.
				To be timely submitted, Applications must be received on or before the
				published Application deadline.
(2)
				Deadlines for submitting Applications shall be announced in the F.A.R. at least
				75 calendar days prior to each deadline.
(3) Applications must be transmitted with an
				original signature cover letter on Applicant's letterhead, signed by the
				appropriate representative, official or administrator, binding the Applicant to
				fulfill the commitments made in the Application, and identifying the employee
				of the local government or representative of the Nonprofit Environmental
				Organization that will act as the key contact between the Trust and the
				Applicant.
(4) Applicants must
				submit four (4) complete sets of Application materials. One set shall contain
				original text and non-text items. The remaining three sets shall contain
				legible copies of text and non-text items, unless otherwise specified in the
				Application form.
(5) Applications
				must be received on or before the published Application deadline. Applications
				received after the published Application deadline shall be deemed late, and
				will not be considered by the Trust.
(6) All applications must be submitted on
				Application Form FCT-5 (eff. 2-8-10), incorporated herein by
				reference.
(7) The following
				exhibits shall be provided:
(a) Copy of each
				Local Comprehensive Plan objective and policy cited or relied upon in the
				Application.
(b) All proposed text
				and map amendments to the Local Comprehensive Plan cited or relied upon in the
				Application as pertaining to the Project Site.
(c) United States Geological Survey 7 1/2
				minute quadrangle map with the boundary of the Project Site clearly
				delineated.
(d) County Tax
				Appraiser's map clearly delineating the project site boundary, access points,
				names of the property owners, and parcel tax identification numbers, and
				ownership boundaries using an appropriate scale.
(e) Aerial photograph (1 inch = 2, 000 feet
				or greater detail) with the Project Site boundary clearly delineated.
(f) Natural Communities map of an appropriate
				scale that depicts the Natural Communities on the Project Site, utilizing the
				Florida Natural Areas Inventory or other appropriate classification system,
				such as the Florida Land Use, Cover and Forms Classification System, and
				providing the approximate acreage of the various Natural Communities with the
				Project Site boundary clearly delineated.
(g) Physical improvements map of an
				appropriate scale that clearly delineates all existing physical improvements,
				alterations, or disturbances occurring on the Project Site, and including all
				cleared areas, buildings, roads, fences, docks, power lines, billboards, borrow
				pits, manmade lakes and excavations, and known easements and rights-of-ways,
				and the approximate acreage of the foregoing with the Project Site boundary
				clearly delineated.
(h) Future Land
				Use Map covering the Project Site and surrounding area that indicates future
				land use designations and which clearly delineates the Project Site
				boundaries.
(i) Resource
				conservation, open space, and outdoor recreation map that identifies the
				Project Site and surrounding lands in a three-mile radius that are used for
				natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation and including all parks,
				preserves, wildlife management areas, greenways, trails, linkages and
				designated outdoor recreation areas.
(j) Map depicting any applicable 100-year
				floodplain or coastal high-hazard area within the boundary of the Project Site
				clearly delineated.
(k) Conceptual
				site plan that clearly delineates the Project Site boundary and shows the
				approximate location of all proposed site improvements.
(l) One set of labeled photographs of the
				Project Site which depict all on-site features on the Project Site and
				including Natural Communities, waterbodies, shorelines, plants, Habitat, unique
				biological or geological features, and historical or archaeological features.
				Each photograph submitted shall include a legend that identifies the photograph
				location and key features that the photograph is intended to depict.
(m) If applicable, evidence of status as a
				Nonprofit Environmental Organization as defined in subsection
				 62-818.002(29),
				F.A.C.
(n) If the Applicant is a
				Nonprofit Environmental Organization which anticipates being designated as the
				management entity pursuant to subsection
				 62-818.003(11),
				F.A.C., evidence that the Nonprofit Environmental Organization has the
				financial resources, including documentation that they have commitments in an
				amount equal to ten percent of the project cost to be set aside as a management
				endowment fund, background qualifications and competence existing to manage the
				Project Site in perpetuity or in cooperation with a Local Government as
				outlined in subsection
				 62-818.003(11),
				F.A.C.
(o) If applicable, a signed
				statement from the owner(s) of each parcel indicating their willingness to
				consider an offer to purchase their parcel(s).
(p) If a Project Site is Pre-acquired:
1. The Applicant shall provide copies of a
				signed closing statement for each Pre-acquired parcel. If a closing statement
				is not available at the time of the application submittal then a copy of the
				contract for each of the Pre-acquired parcels shall be provided and a copy of
				the closing statements shall be provided within 14 days after the application
				deadline.
2. The Applicant shall
				provide a statement that neither condemnation nor the threat of condemnation
				was used in the purchase of the property.