companies' new nuclear power plants but also for uprate activities at their existing nuclear plants. SACE does not contest the latter. 3 . Technically speaking, the Legislature in this case has not delegated its power to another branch, as the Public Service Commission "has been and shall continue to be an arm of the legislative branch of government," § 350.001, Fla. Stat. (2010). But "some of the functions given the [PSC] are executive in nature ... [and it] also performs quasi-judicial functions.” Chiles v. Pub. Serv. Comm’n Nominating Council, 573 So.2d 829, 832 (Fla. 1991). As its latter function is at issue here, separation of powers principles apply despite the fact that the PSC is a legislative agency. See Fla. Gas Transmission v. Pub. Serv. Comm’n, 635 So.2d 941, 944 (Fla.1994)
holding that the prosecutors authority to define nonstatutory aggravating factors is a constitutional delegation of congresss legislative power recognizing in the psc context that a legislative delegation of power to a legislative or executive agency permitting an agency to declare what the law is violates floridas separation of powers doctrine holding rfra is inconsistent with smith and violates the separation of powers doctrine holding that the power of any administrative agency to reconsider its final decision exists only where the statutory provisions creating the agency indicate a legislative intent to permit the agency to carry into effect such power recognizing separation of powers doctrine