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]
[S. 446 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 446

  To prohibit Big Cypress National Preserve from being designated as 
 wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation 
                    System, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 6 (legislative day, February 5), 2025

  Mr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read 
  twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit Big Cypress National Preserve from being 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 DESIGNATION OF BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE 
              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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