CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1982).
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...rements when purchasing services for projects for which they will be reimbursed by your department. The recipients are usually units of local government or other state agencies. For the following reasons, your questions are answered in the negative. Section 378.031 (1), F.S., provides: 378.031 Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund....
...ption of the master reclamation plan, no moneys shall be paid to the landowner. (d) Moneys shall be paid only for reclamation which is consistent with the master reclamation plan to be developed under s.
378.021 and adopted as a rule. (e.s.) Thus, s
378.031 (1) expressly sets out the respective duties of the Department of Natural Resources and the Comptroller in regard to money paid into the Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund....
...atural Resources, and also upon `verification of the cost of the reclamation' by his own office, must grant the specified payments from the Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund, subject to certain limitations set forth in paragraphs (a)-(d) of s 378.031 (1)....
...isposition of money in the trust fund in any other manner, it would have done so clearly and unequivocally, and that any other disposition must await specific legislative direction). Accordingly, I must conclude, in view of the express language of s 378.031 (1) and the rules of statutory construction set forth above, that the Department of Natural Resources' duties under this statute are limited to verification of completion of an approved reclamation program....
