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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2580 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the |
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| 6 | 6 | | Kissimmee River in the State of Florida as a component of the Wild |
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| 7 | 7 | | and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL1, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. S |
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| 11 | 11 | | OTOintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 12 | 12 | | on Natural Resources |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate |
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| 15 | 15 | | a segment of the Kissimmee River in the State of Florida |
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| 16 | 16 | | as a component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, |
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| 17 | 17 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Kissimmee River Wild 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | and Scenic River Act’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •HR 2580 IH |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF WILD AND SCENIC RIVER SEG-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | MENT, KISSIMMEE RIVER, FLORIDA. 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | U.S.C. 1274(a)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | lowing: 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(233) K |
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| 32 | 32 | | ISSIMMEE RIVER, FLORIDA.— 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 34 | 34 | | N GENERAL.—The restored segment 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | of the Kissimmee River, beginning approxi-8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | mately 16 miles downstream of Lake Kis-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | simmee and ending approximately 15 miles up-10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | stream of Lake Okeechobee, to be administered 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | by the Secretary of the Interior as a rec-12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | reational river. 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(B) W |
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| 42 | 42 | | ITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid ex-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | isting rights, the Federal land within the 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | boundaries of the river segments designated by 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | subparagraph (A) is withdrawn from all forms 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | of— 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(i) entry, appropriation, or disposal 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | under the public land laws; 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(ii) location, entry, and patent under 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | the mining laws; and 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(iii) disposition under all laws relat-23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ing to mineral and geothermal leasing or 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | mineral materials.’’. 25 |
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