ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST v. STATE

Nos. 96-4341, 97-0255, 97-0770 and 97-3909.

714 So.2d 493 (1998)

The ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST and Sarasota Environmental Investors, Inc., Appellants, v. STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Appellee. STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Appellant, v. The ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST, Sirrom Resource Funding, L.P., Southeast Solutions, Inc., Environmental Corporation of America, Inc., Sirrom Environmental Funding, LLC, and Reservoir Capital Corp., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Gary Early and Christopher R. Haughee of Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, Tallahassee, for Appellants Environmental Trust and Sarasota Environmental Investors, Inc.

W. Douglas Beason, Assistant General Counsel and Rebecca Grace, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee, for Appellee Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Thomas K. Maurer of Foley & Lardner, Tallahassee, for Appellees Sirrom Resource Funding, L.P. and Sirrom Environmental Funding, LLC.

Matt Mathews of Matt Mathews P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellee Southeast Solutions, Inc.

Bradford C. Vassey, General Counsel, Tampa, for Appellee Environmental Corporation of America, Inc.

Ralph A. DeMeo and Michael P. Petrovich of Hopping, Green, Sams & Smith, Tallahassee, for Appellee Reservoir Capital Corporation.


PADOVANO, Judge.

In these consolidated appeals we review four final orders relating to the administration of the Inland Petroleum Trust Fund. Environmental Trust and Sarasota Environmental Investors challenge an order of the Department of Environmental Protection denying in part their applications for reimbursement for cleaning up petroleum contamination, as well as a related order by an administrative law judge authorizing the Department's use of incipient non-rule...

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