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AUG 41982 �°8K <br />PELICAN ISLAND' AUDUBON SOCIETY <br />P. 0. Box 1833 <br />VERO BEACH, FLORIDA 32960 <br />July 25, 1982 <br />Ais. Victoria J. Tschinkel <br />Secretary,Department of Environmental Regulation <br />Twin Towers Office Building <br />2600 Blair Stone Road <br />Tallahassee, FL 32301 <br />866 <br />Dear Ms. Tschinkel: <br />We have been advised that there are plans to transfer the <br />jurisdiction of part of Indian River County to the South <br />Florida District of DER which has its district office in <br />Ft. Myers. The remainder- of Indian River County will still <br />be under the jurisdiction of the St. Johns River District of <br />DER which has its headquarters in Orlando. <br />We urge you to reconsider this decision and keep Indian River <br />County completely in the 5t. Johns River District where it <br />has been since the DER came into existance about eight years <br />ago.. During these years Alex Senkevich and. his staff in <br />Orlando haye accumulated a tremendous amount of knowledge <br />about our county and have established working relationships <br />with the County Commission, the various city councils, <br />engineers and citizens here that allow their responsibilities <br />to be handled in an expeditious and professional manner. <br />The headwaters of the St. Johns River lie in Indian River <br />County. We think that it is in the best interests of the <br />public for our county to remain with the other counties <br />that are in the St. Johns River District of DER. We have <br />been placed in a Florida Senate District with Brevard and <br />other counties which primarily lie in the St. Johns River <br />District of DER. The administrative duties of the St. Johns <br />River Water Management District can be more efficiently <br />handled if its personnel only have to deal with the'St. Johns <br />River District of DER instead of having to coordinate with <br />both the Orlando district office and the Ft. Myers district <br />office of DER. The majority.of State Representative Dale <br />Patchett's house district currently lies -in the St. Johns <br />River District of DER and he said. he understands that it <br />will continue to do so. We hope that is correct. <br />Regards, <br />Ray Fernald, President <br />94-A <br />