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[CITE: 25USC1750]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
               CHAPTER 19--INDIAN LAND CLAIMS SETTLEMENTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--FLORIDA INDIAN (MICCOSUKEE) LAND CLAIMS SETTLEMENT
 
                      Part B--Miccosukee Settlement
 
Sec. 1750. Congressional findings

    Congress finds that:
        (1) There is pending before the United States District Court for 
    the Southern District of Florida a lawsuit by the Miccosukee Tribe 
    that involves the taking of certain tribal lands in connection with 
    the construction of highway Interstate 75 by the Florida Department 
    of Transportation.
        (2) The pendency of the lawsuit referred to in paragraph (1) 
    clouds title of certain lands used in the maintenance and operation 
    of the highway and hinders proper planning for future maintenance 
    and operations.
        (3) The Florida Department of Transportation, with the 
    concurrence of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvements 
    Trust Fund of the State of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe have 
    executed an agreement for the purpose of resolving the dispute and 
    settling the lawsuit.
        (4) The agreement referred to in paragraph (3) requires the 
    consent of Congress in connection with contemplated land transfers.
        (5) The Settlement Agreement is in the interest of the 
    Miccosukee Tribe, as the Tribe will receive certain monetary 
    payments, new reservation lands to be held in trust by the United 
    States, and other benefits.
        (6) Land received by the United States pursuant to the 
    Settlement Agreement is in consideration of Miccosukee Indian 
    Reservation lands lost by the Miccosukee Tribe by virtue of transfer 
    to the Florida Department of Transportation under the Settlement 
    Agreement.
        (7) The lands referred to in paragraph (6) as received by the 
    United States will be held in trust by the United States for the use 
    and benefit of the Miccosukee Tribe as Miccosukee Indian Reservation 
    lands in compensation for the consideration given by the Tribe in 
    the Settlement Agreement.
        (8) Congress shares with the parties to the Settlement Agreement 
    a desire to resolve the dispute and settle the lawsuit.

(Pub. L. 105-83, title VII, Sec. 702, Nov. 14, 1997, 111 Stat. 1624.)


                               Short Title

    Section 701 of title VII of Pub. L. 105-83 provided that: ``This 
title [enacting this part] may be cited as the `Miccosukee Settlement 
Act of 1997'.''
