COASTAL PETROLEUM COMPANY v. STATE, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

No. 94-219.

649 So.2d 930 (1995)

COASTAL PETROLEUM COMPANY and Almeria T. Cottingham, Anne M. Clark, Helen T. Kerr, Hugh C. MacFarlane, William W. Arnold and Charles E. Arnold, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

February 9, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Angerer, Tallahassee, for Coastal Petroleum Co.

Susan W. Fox and Charles W. Pittman of MacFarlane, Ausley, Ferguson & McMullen, Tampa, for intervenors.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Denis Dean and Jonathan A. Glogau, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


ALLEN, Judge.

Coastal Petroleum Company (Coastal) and other interested persons appeal from a final order denying Coastal's application for a permit to drill a gas and oil exploration well. Because the appellee Department of Environmental Protection (the department)* was without authority to require security from Coastal in addition to its payment into the Petroleum Exploration and Production Bond Trust Fund (the fund), we reverse.

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