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                                                         Calendar No. 220
                   119TH CONGRESS                                     REPORT
                      1st Session             SENATE                  119-90





                      MICCOSUKEE RESERVED AREA AMENDMENTS ACT


                                  OCTOBER 28, 2025.-Ordered to be printed


                        Ms. MURKOWSKI,  from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
                                       submitted the following

                                          REPORT

                                          [To accompany S. 673]

                            [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

                     The Committee  on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
                   (S. 673) to amend Miccosukee Reserved Area Act to authorize the
                   expansion of the Miccosukee Reserved Area and to carry out activi-
                   ties to protect structures within the Osceola Camp from flooding,
                   and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
                   ably thereon without amendment and recommends  that the bill, do
                   pass.
                                              PURPOSE
                     S. 673 would amend the Miccosukee Reserved  Area Act (MRAA)
                   to authorize inclusion of the Osceola Camp into the Miccosukee
                   Reserved Area and  direct the Secretary of the Interior to act, in
                   consultation with the Tribe, to protect the Camp from flooding.
                                       BACKGROUND   AND NEED
                     The Miccosukee  Tribe is a  federally recognized Indian Tribe
                   whose reservation is located within the exterior boundaries of the
                   Everglades National Park  (ENP)  in Miami-Dade,  Florida. From
                   1964 to 1998, the Miccosukee Tribe lived and governed their own
                   affairs on a strip of land on the northern edge of the ENP, known
                   as the Special Use Permit Area, under permits from the National
                   Park Service and other legal authority.'

                   IMiccosukee Reserved Area Act (MRAA), Pub. L. No. 105-313, 112 Stat. 2964 (1998).


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