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A TRUE COPY CERTIFICATION ON LAST PAGE RYAN L. BUTLER, CLERK Attachment C Contract FWC Best Management Practices for DV removal 23214 Derelict Vessel Removal Process Derelict vessels are existing impacts to the environment as well as boating safety hazards, impediments to navigation, and esthetic nuisances. Typically these vessels are found grounded on the edges of active waterways where they may have physical impacts on benthic and shoreline communities. However, the impact of these vessels is not limited to their immediate location. If left unattended, the influences of winds and tides continue to push the boats causing greater impact as they become more deeply mired into the environment. Early extraction of these vessels will avoid and minimize the environmental impacts. In addition to these physical impacts resulting from the movement of these vessel through the environment; there is the long term effect caused by their continued degradation and decay in the marine environment. These vessels may be constructed of various materials, such as wood, steel, aluminum, or fiberglass; each having varying degrees of resilience and can remain in the marine environment for extended periods of time. With the progression of time; the environmental impacts increase with the shading from the hull and displacement of live bottom and emergent vegetative communities resulting from the expansion of the debris field as the vessels disintegrates. The impacts resulting from the removal of these vessels during any stage is less than the impacts caused by the long-term presence of the vessel in the marine environment. Therefore the early detection and removal of these abandoned and derelict vessels is the best means of minimizing the individual or cumulative impacts to the environment. Derelict Vessel Removal (FDEP) Permit Exemption An Exemption under Florida Administrative Code Chapter 62-330-051(5)(8) by Florida Department of Environmental Protection, has been established for the removal of derelict vessels. Based on the presumption that the extraction of these vessels from the marine environment will cause only minimal environmental impacts and in turn avoid the long-term impacts resulting from the degradation of the vessel at it current location. The environmental impacts are ameliorated by the application of the best management practices referenced below. Florida Administrative Code Chapter 62-330-051(5)(g) (g) The removal of derelict vessels, as defined in Section 823.11(1), F.S., by federal, state, and local agencies, provided: 1. The derelict vessel case has been completed as specified in Section 705.103, F.S., and has been entered into the Statewide Derelict Vessel Database maintained by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission;