Florida Administrative Code › 18 - BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT TRUST FUND › 18 - Departmental › Chapter 18-21 - SOVEREIGNTY SUBMERGED LANDS MANAGEMENT › Section 18-21.003 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
When used in these rules, the following definitions shall
				  apply unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Accretion" means the process of gradual
				and imperceptible additions of sand, sediment, or other material to riparian
				lands made by the natural action of water which results in dry lands formerly
				covered by water.
(2) "Activity"
				means any use of sovereignty lands which requires board approval for letter of
				consent, lease, easement, sale, or transfer of interest in such sovereignty
				lands or materials. Activity includes, but is not limited to, the construction
				of docks, piers, boat ramps, board walks, mooring pilings, dredging of
				channels, filling, removal of logs, sand, silt, clay, gravel or shell, and the
				removal or planting of vegetation on sovereignty lands.
(3) "Applicant" means any person making
				application for a lease, sale, or other form of conveyance of an interest in
				sovereignty lands or any other necessary form of governmental approval for an
				activity on sovereignty lands.
(4)
				"Appraisal services" has the same meaning as provided in Rule
				 18-1.002, F.A.C.
(5) "Approved appraisal" has the same meaning
				as provided in Rule  18-1.002, F.A.C.
(6) "Approved upland residential units" means
				the number of residential units given final approval by a local government for
				one parcel of land riparian to the affected waterbody. For the purpose of this
				rule, conceptual approval shall not be deemed to constitute final
				approval.
(7) "Aquaculture" means
				the cultivation of aquatic organisms and associated activities, including, but
				not limited to grading, sorting, transporting, harvesting, holding, storing,
				growing and planting.
(8)
				"Aquaculture Activities" means any activities related to the production of
				aquacultural products, including, but not limited to, producing, storing,
				handling, grading, sorting, transporting, harvesting, and aquacultural support
				docking.
(9) "Aquaculture
				Restoration" means the controlled propagation and subsequent planting and
				husbandry of native, aquatic plants and animals on sovereignty submerged lands,
				not affixed to public or private dock or pier, for wild population
				enhancement.
(10) "Aquaculture Use
				Zone" means a contiguous tract of sovereignty submerged lands which allows for
				an array of multiple aquaculture leases configured to facilitate management and
				enforcement.
(11) "Artificial
				accretion" means the addition of sand, sediment, or other material to riparian
				lands caused by man-made projects and operations which results in dry lands
				formerly covered by water.
(12)
				"Artificial erosion" means the slow and imperceptible loss or washing away of
				sand, sediment, or other material from property caused by man-made projects and
				operations.
(13) "Avulsion" means
				the sudden or perceptible loss of or addition to land by the action of water or
				the sudden or perceptible change in the bed of a lake or the course of a
				stream.
(14) "Benthic communities"
				means any sovereignty submerged land where any of the following associations of
				indigenous interdependent plants and animals occur: grass beds, algal beds,
				sponge beds, octocoral patches or beds, hard coral patches or reefs, and tidal
				swamps, including mangroves, identified in any reports submitted pursuant to
				paragraph  18-21.004(2)(c),
				F.A.C., Communities is intended to reflect identifiable assemblages of
				organisms as opposed to scattered or single individuals.
(15) "Board" means Board of Trustees of the
				Internal Improvement Trust Fund or delegate.
(16) "Channel" means a trench, the bottom of
				which is normally covered entirely by water, with the upper edges of its sides
				normally below water.
(17) "Coastal
				barrier islands" means a depositional geologic feature consisting of
				unconsolidated sedimentary materials in an island configuration which is
				subject to direct attack by wave, tidal, and wind energies originating from the
				Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico, and which serves to protect landward aquatic
				habitats, such as bays and estuaries, and the interior uplands of the mainland
				from oceanic wave, tidal, and wind forces.
(18) "Coastal island" means a coastline
				geological feature lying above mean high water that is completely separated
				from the coastal mainland by marine or estuarine waters, including those
				parcels of land which become insular due to natural causes, and is composed of
				any substrate material, including spoil material. This specifically includes,
				in addition to exposed coastal islands:
(a)
				All islands within aquatic preserves except for Lake Jackson, Rainbow River,
				and Wekiva River Aquatic Preserves; and,
(b) Other islands within confined or
				semi-confined marine or estuarine waters with an open connection to the
				Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico such as bays, lagoons or inlets. Except for
				coastal islands within the specified aquatic preserves, it does not include
				islands or portions of islands within rivers leading into marine and estuarine
				waters more than one mile upstream of a line drawn at the river mouth from
				headland to headland.