ADVISORY OPINION TO GOVERNOR

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Dexter Douglass, General Counsel and Deborah Kearney, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the Governor, Tallahassee, for Presentor.

E. Thom Rumberger, George N. Meros, Jr., Richard A. Keller and William L. Sundberg of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, Tallahassee, and Jon Mills and Timothy McLendon, Gainesville, for Save Our Everglades, Inc.; William L. Hyde, Osmer D. Batcheller and Richard Alonso of Gunster, Yoakley, Valdes-Fauli & Stewart, P.A., Tallahassee;, for U.S. Sugar Corporation; William H. Green, David L. Powell, Gary P. Sams and Gary V. Perko of Hopping, Green, Sams & Smith, P.A., Tallahassee, and Jeffrey J. Ward, Vice-President of Legal Affairs, Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, Belle Glade, and Robert M. Rhodes, Senior Vice-President and General Counsel for St. Joe Corporation, Jacksonville, for Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida and St. Joe Corporation; William B. Killian, Joseph P. Klock, Jr., Donald M. Middlebrooks, Victoria L. Weber and Donna E. Blanton of Steel, Hector & Davis, LLP, Tallahassee, for Flo-Sun, Incorporated, Osceola Farms Co., Atlantic Sugar Association, Inc., and Okeelanta Corporation; Susan L. Turner of Holland & Knight, Tallahassee, for The Florida Chamber of Commerce, Inc.; Michael L. Rosen, Executive Director, Tallahassee, Florida, for Florida Legal Foundation, Inc.; and Clay Henderson, Winter Park, for Florida Audubon Society and National Audubon Society, Interested Parties.