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handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahmr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GPO 119TH CONGRESS REPT. 119-189 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 MICCOSUKEE RESERVED AREA AMENDMENTS ACT JULY 10, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 504] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 504) to amend the Miccosukee Reserved Area Act to au- thorize the expansion of the Miccosukee Reserved Area and to carry out activities to protect structures within the Osceola Camp from flooding, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION The purpose of H.R. 504 is to amend the Miccosukee Reserved Area Act to authorize the expansion of the Miccosukee Reserved Area and to carry out activities to protect structures within the Osceola Camp from flooding, and for other purposes. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION H.R. 504 would amend the Miccosukee Reserved Area Act to in- clude the Osceola Camp tribal village as part of the Miccosukee Re- served Area and would direct the Secretary of the Interior to con- sult with the tribe and then take appropriate actions to protect the structures within the village from flooding. The Miccosukee Tribe is currently located in the Greater Ever- glades in southern Florida. The oral history of the Miccosukee Tribe claims originality in the northern part of Florida,' and that the tribe's ancestors used land stretching from the Appalachians to I Miccosukee, Tiller's Guide to Indian Country, Veronica E. Velarde Tiller (2015). 59-006