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[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.
