The Local Rule Review Committee (LRRC) was convened in July 2003 to evaluate and provide local perspectives on new manatee protection zones in Tampa Bay proposed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The Tampa Bay LRRC was the first constituted under a new state law requiring review of state manatee zones by a local advisory panel of diverse stakeholders. That law, the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act, specified that the membership of the LRRC must contain a 50-50 balance of manatee advocates and waterway user advocates, and set a 60-day time clock, commencing upon receipt of the formal state proposal, for reviewing and providing a report to the FWC summarizing the Committee's recommendations regarding the proposed zones. State law allows for counties bordering a single waterway to designate a joint committee to represent their communities. The County Commissions of Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas designated an existing manatee advisory committee, the Tampa Bay Estuary Program's Manatee Awareness Coalition, to serve as the LRRC. In general, the LRRC recommended few new state regulatory speed zones for Tampa Bay, opting instead to defer to existing local or federal zones where they existed, or were planned, and to support existing organized boater education or seagrass protection programs in areas with no regulation. Speed zones were recommended in the Little Manatee River and Apollo Beach areas of Hillsborough County, and in the Braden and Manatee rivers of Manatee County. In Manatee County, a majority of the committee supported deferring state rulemaking until the county has completed a revision of its existing slow speed ordinance, and adoption of that ordinance as the formal state rule for manatee protection in the county. No new speed zones were recommended for Pinellas County. This report provides a summary of the recommendations issued by the LRRC for Tampa Bay, as well as detailed highlights of the discussions regarding each proposed zone. Majority and minority viewpoints are presented within these discussion highlights.