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The South Florida, St. Johns River, and Southwest Florida water management districts are conducting independent scientific peer review of their work to expand the East Central Florida Transient Groundwater Model in support of the 2020 Regional Water Supply Plan for the Central Florida Water Initiative (CFWI) area that includes the southern portion of Lake and all of Orange, Osceola, Polk and Seminole counties. PURSUANT TO SECTION 373.042(5), FLORIDA STATUTES, THE MODEL MAY BE ADOPTED BY THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, MAY BE USED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE LAKE LEVELS AND MFLs, AND THEREFORE MAY APPLY TO MORE THAN ONE WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. This scientific peer review panel meeting is being held to review and discuss comments on the Conceptual Model document for the ECFTX Model. Minutes of this meeting will be available no later than October 25, 2016. NOTE: One or more members of the District’s Governing Board may attend this meeting.