Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 66A-1.001 - The District
(1) West Coast
Inland Navigation District, also referred to as WCIND, was created pursuant to
Chapter 23770, Laws of Florida (1947). WCIND is an independent, multi-county
special taxing district composed of the Counties of Manatee, Sarasota,
Charlotte and Lee.
(2) WCIND was
created to implement the requirements and conditions imposed upon "local
interests, " by the Congress of the United States of America, in its River and
Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945, authorizing the improvement and construction
of an inland waterway from the Caloosahatchee River, Florida, to the Anclote
River, Florida. Part 211 of Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters, of the
Code of Federal Regulations, contains current regulations of the Corps of
Engineers, Department of the Army, governing the Corps' activities in
connection with Federal civil works projects like the Intracoastal Waterway
from the Caloosahatchee River, Florida to the Anclote River, Florida. These
Federal regulations provide that no land shall be acquired on account of the
United States except under a law authorizing such acquisition. (The Federal law
authorizing the project is the River and Harbor Act approved by the Congress of
the United States of America, on March 2, 1945.) The Federal regulations
require local cooperation for civil works projects, meaning that local
(non-Federal) interests are required to provide without cost to the United
States, all lands, easements and rights-of-way for the construction of the
projects. WCIND was created by The Florida Legislature in 1947 to provide the
requisite local cooperation for the construction and maintenance of the
waterway. WCIND is authorized to obtain by donation, purchase or condemnation
and convey without cost to the United States, the necessary rights of way for
said project together with suitable areas for the deposit of spoil material in
connection with the work and its subsequent maintenance, all as contemplated
and required by the Congress of the United States, and those acting by its
authority.
(3) WCIND is also
responsible for undertaking programs intended to alleviate problems associated
with its waterway, and is empowered and authorized to carry out waterway
development projects specified in Sections 374.975 and 374.976,
F.S.
Notes
Rulemaking Authority 374.976(2) FS. Law Implemented 120.53(1)(a) FS.
New 11-11-90, Formerly 16S-1.001.
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