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Show FLORIDA 211 and adopted, the State water use plan "together with the water quality standards and classifications of the department of pollution control" shall constitute the Florida Water Plan. And the statute advises that the water use plan "should be developed in coordination with" the system of water quality standards.40 (3) Water Management Districts By statute the State is divided into the following five water man- agement districts: Northwest Florida, Suwannee Kiver Basin, St. Johns Kiver Basin, Southwest Florida, and South Florida.41 The act does not establish exact boundaries for these districts, but since this part of the act took effect immediately, as did the section relating to governing boards for the districts, the department is directed to consult with such governing boards in determining the "most de- sirable boundaries between the respective districts," and to submit its recommendations to the 1973 legislature. The act does say that it is the "intent of the legislature that all territory in the State be in- cluded in a water management district," and that the boundaries should "follow as nearly as practicable" the natural river basin boundaries.42 The department's recommendations to the legislature are also to include suitable arrangements for "transfers of territory, property, works, funds, appropriations, personnel, obligations, and assets" between or among existing districts and the new districts created by the 1972 act.43 It will be remembered, however, that the two major districts (Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District and the Southwest Florida Water Management District) are preserved by the act, but the department is authorized to consider and recom- mend to the 1973 legislature "changes in the boundaries" and trans- fers of property, equipment, funds and personnel among and between those two districts and the new management districts.44 The governing boards of the new water management districts are to be composed of nine members who are residents of the respective districts where they serve. Board member are appointed by the Governor, confirmed by the Senate, serve without pay (but receive reimbursement for expenses), and are authorized to employ an ex- ecutive director, engineers, lawyers, and other professional staff, and such assistants and other personnel as the board deems neces- sary.45 The general powers of the board include contracting with public agencies and private persons to accomplish the purpose of the act, issuing orders to enforce the act or any regulations promulgated thereunder, and to make surveys and investigations of water re- sources with the district. The board is specifically authorized to construct works for the purpose of introducing water into an under- ground aquifer for storage, or for withdrawing water therefrom for water supply, but any water so introduced must be of a "compatible quality."46 "Sec. 373.039 (1972 supp.). «Sec. 373.069(1) (1972 supp.). 42 Sec. 373.069(2) (1972 supp.). «ld. «Sec. 373.149 (1972 supp.). «Sec. 373.073, 373.079 (1972 supp.). *«Sec. 373.087, 373.103, 373.106 (1972 supp.). 499-242-73------15 |