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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-634
KISSIMMEE RIVER WILD AND SCENIC RIVER STUDY ACT
OF 2018
APRIL 13, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3961]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 3961) to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate
segments of the Kissimmee River and its tributaries in the State
of Florida for study for potential addition to the National Wild and
Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Kissimmee River Wild and Scenic River Study Act
of 2018.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The Kissimmee River has undergone, over the course of two decades, the
largest river restoration effort in the world.
(2) Extending approximately 105 miles from Orlando to Lake Okeechobee, the
Kissimmee River forms the headwaters of Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades
and serves as a vital component of ecosystem restoration in South Florida as
a whole.
(3) The Kissimmee River Restoration Project has significantly improved ap-
proximately 63,000 acres of wetlands within the Kissimmee River watershed
and reestablished an environment suitable for fish, wildlife, and the wetland
plants that existed prior to the Kissimmee River's channelization in the 1960s.
(4) The Kissimmee River Restoration Project is expected to be completed in
2020, at which point it is expected to reestablish historic hydrologic conditions,
recreate historic river and floodplain connectivity, recreate the historic mosaic
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