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JUN 2198 ooK 49 PAU 903 driller to avoid the risk of having a dry hole. Sea Oaks also will have a wellfield site adjacent to the river. He explained that DER regulations require that they have at least two wells, one to supply backup. These wells will _ duplicate each other and provide the same capabilities. They will be the first phase of the North Beach Water Company and additional wells will be drilled at other sites in the future. Commissioner Lyons stated that he keeps feeling that we are being asked to put the cart before the horse. If we are talking about pieces of what is going to be the North Beach Water Company, he questioned why we don't handle the whole project first and then let the pieces fall under that umbrella. Attorney Sundstrom noted that the biggest reason they decided to come here today is that they are on a critical path of analysis on a certain set of time frames that have to come together. Because of this time table, they feel that the failure to secure their franchise could be a disincentive to them and cause them to lose about seven months, which might as well be a year. Mr. Sundstrom continued to emphasize Florida Land's leadership re a unified water system, noting that it is the County who wants control over the water system, not Florida Land, and pointing out that if Florida Land Company did not follow through on the North Beach Water Company project, they would lose their consumptive use permit because they do not need such a big well. Mr. Sundstrom then discussed the so-called "roll-over" provision, noting that the franchise presented today already has been modified by five rewrites at request of staff. He proposed a further rewording of Section 22, which contains the roll-over provision, to state that the franchise will be granted as an interim franchise, only as regards potable water, with the understanding that the 47