Official Summaries

This bill prohibits the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida from being designated as wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The National Park Service currently manages Big Cypress National Preserve, which is a freshwater swamp ecosystem of 729,000 acres. 

In general, development activities, commercial activities, permanent structures, and roads are prohibited in wilderness areas. In contrast, natural preserves typically allow some development activities, such as hunting or oil and gas exploration.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1192 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1192

 To ensure that Big Cypress National Preserve may not be designated as 
 wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation 
                    System, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2025

  Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Diaz-
 Balart, Mr. Steube, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Gimenez, 
Mrs. Luna, Ms. Salazar, Mr. Moskowitz, Mr. Mast, Mrs. Cammack, Ms. Lee 
 of Florida, and Mr. Rutherford) introduced the following bill; which 
           was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that Big Cypress National Preserve may not be designated as 
 wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation 
                    System, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE DESIGNATION AS 
              WILDERNESS.

    Big Cypress National Preserve may not be designated as wilderness 
or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
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