South Florida Sun Sentinel from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 12

12A Sun-Sentinel, Tuesday, September 13, 1988 YHL SVAVts Legislators dispute governor's vetoes Personalized tags can spell trouble suit. Pete Dunbar, general counsel for Martinez's office, said it is the first time he knows of that the Republican legislative leadership declined to take part in such a lawsuit. Dunbar agrees that the issue is a constitutional one but differs on the details of that question. He said the governor purposely vetoed some appropriations contained in working papers to the general appropriations bill because he wanted to resolve the issue. But Crowley said the governor over- stepped his constitutional bounds by vetoing only portions of a special appropriation.

"The central and the overriding issue is whether the governor, whether he be Democrat or Republican, has the power to reduce a specific appropriation," Crowley said. Of the disputed vetoes, only one for $80,000 directly affects South Florida. The governor plucked that amount for a long-range planning position at Florida Atlantic University out of a $187 million line item in the budget for state university faculty salaries. Crowley denied Dunbar's contention that the lawsuit was a partisan attack. "The issue is a constitutional issue," he said.

"There is nothing in the nature of the items selected nor in the legal position that the House or Senate has taken that could lead to any conclusion that it was motivated by partisan considerations." Staff Writer Diane Hirth contributed to this report. The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE The Florida Legislature asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to restore $789,000 that Gov. Bob Martinez struck from the $21.2 billion budget with five vetoes it maintains are unconstitutional. Both sides say the lawsuit is a first but for different reasons. Kevin Crowley, general counsel for the House, said it is the first time as far as he knows that the House and Senate, acting as a single body, have filed a law DER ignores waterways as 'nationally significant' Captive conchs raised successfully in test The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE Arie Darley may have one of the toughest jobs in state government.

She and her co-workers have to decide whether the wording requested for a personalized license plate is too risque or in poor taste. Darley is a senior clerk in the state Bureau of Registration Services, which processes more than 100,000 personalized license plates sold each year. Most of the requests do not pose any serious problems, although occasionally someone will try to slip something off-color through the system. Many people can become very creative in using numbers and letters to convey a message, such as "MU6MYL" for "music is my life," Darley said. One motorist, apparently sick of dirt roads, bought "No-Mo-Mud" for his four-wheel drive vehicle.

During fiscal year 1987-88, which ended on June 30, Floridians purchased 116,893 personalized license plates, including those with college emblems and the special plates that commemorated the Challenger shuttle. That means about one out of every 100 state-registered vehicles traveling on Florida's highways has some type of personalized message. The personalized tags are not cheap. It costs an additional $12 a year above the regular fee for a personalized plate, $17 above the regular fee for a Challenger tag and $27 above the regular fee for a college booster plate. Gail Christy, assistant bureau chief, said the demand from those willing to pay for such a plate creates a big job in reviewing the prospective messages that go on the tags.

"We have clerks to review those before they go into the computer to be issued. Any that are considered obscene or objectionable are turned down," she said. it's fairly likely that we're not going to release these conchs," said John Hunt, supervisor of the Florida Department of Natural Resources' Marathon Field Laboratory, which oversaw the project. Researchers cannot be sure how the imported conchs would affect the native population, but they fear they could introduce diseases or compete for food and habitat. But Carl Berg head of the project, was pleased with the 90 percent survival rate for the imported conchs.

"We're not disappointed," Berg said. "We've shown that we can grow these things, and that means we're justified in setting up our own cused DER of "deliberately distorting things in order to avoid putting any bodies of water in that category." Lee said DER is intentionally interpreting the category in the strictest manner because the agency fears that elevating any waterways to the higher status would curtail development activities in those areas. Swihart conceded there "would be cases where it the designation would have a profound effect on development." But he denied that the fear of thwarting growth was the reason the agency failed to name any nationally significant waters. DER has not said it absolutely will not designate any nationally significant waters, Swihart said. The agency is now taking recommendations for such water bodies.

The Associated Press MIAMI Ten thousand baby conchs raised in captivity appear genetically different from native populations, but researchers said the project nonetheless boosts long-term prospects for the marine snails. Conchs, symbols of the Florida Keys, have dwindled in number because of overfishing and changes in habitat. Scientists acquired the baby conchs from the Turks and Caicos Islands in February and planned eventually to place them in the wild. University of Florida tests on the captive conchs may change that plan. "Although we have not made a final decision yet, and we are having a lot of geneticists look at the conchs, The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE No bodies of water in Florida, including the Everglades, are deemed to be "nationally significant" by the state agency that created the new category.

The Environmental Protection Agency has told the state it must establish a process for determining which bodies of water merit the label, but did not say the state must actually name any as being nationally important, said Tom Swi-hart, who is in charge of water-quality standards at the state Department of Environmental Regulation. According to the DER, development restrictions that go with the label are so strict they cannot apply the status to any water bodies. Charles Lee, a senior vice president with the Florida Audubon Society, ac Davie has received $3 million from the county to buy Pine Island Ridge. Take our low all across the Orange Dr 3 Staff graphic country. RIDGE FROM PAGE 1A jti.

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The islands, parts of which are now in Dania and Flamingo Groves, contained housing settlements, farms, and burial grounds. Most importantly, they served as the Seminoles' headquarters during the Second Seminole War, from 1835 to 1842, and the Third Seminole War, from 1855 to 1858. Numerous raids on Fort Lauderdale civilians also were launched from these islands. The purchase will be made through the state's Conservation and Land Trust Program, which preserves unique and irreplaceable lands. The program, which spends about $40 million to $50 million annually, is financed through taxes on deed transfers.

Of the 69 sites ranked on the current financing list. Pine Island Ridge ranked 25th. However, only 18 sites were expected to receive money this year. The site benefited from a state law that allows a proposal to move up the list if it receives at least 50 percent local money. Broward County and Davie have committed a total of $3 million in land and cash to help pay the $6 million price.

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