§ 698m. — Authorization of appropriations for Big Cypress Preserve and Addition.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC698m]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
Sec. 698m. Authorization of appropriations for Big Cypress
Preserve and Addition
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, there are
authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out
the provisions of sections 698f to 698m-4 of this title, but not to
exceed $156,700,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands
and not to exceed $900,000 for development. Any funds donated to the
United States by the State of Florida pursuant to chapter 73-131 of the
Florida statutes shall be used solely for the acquisition of lands and
interests in land within the preserve.
(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from the Land and
Water Conservation Fund not to exceed $49,500,000 for the acquisition of
lands within the Addition. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated
such sums as may be necessary for development in the Addition.
(Pub. L. 93-440, Sec. 8, Oct. 11, 1974, 88 Stat. 1261; Pub. L. 95-625,
title II, Sec. 201(1), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3473; Pub. L. 100-301,
Sec. 7, Apr. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 446.)
Amendments
1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-301, Sec. 7(1), designated existing
provisions as subsec. (a), substituted ``Except as provided in
subsection (b) of this section, there'' for ``There'', and added subsec.
(b).
1978--Pub. L. 95-625 increased land acquisition appropriations
authorization to $156,700,000 from $116,000,000.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 698f, 698g, 698h, 698i, 698j
of this title.
