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The Florida Statutes
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The 1995 Florida Statutes
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285.165 Water rights compact
with Seminole Tribe. ---
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 285.16, the
water rights compact among the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the State
of Florida, and the South Florida Water Management District as
approved by the governing board of the South Florida Water
Management District at its May 15, 1987, governing board meeting is
hereby ratified and approved. The compact shall not be effective
until approved in appropriate federal legislation. Upon
congressional approval, the compact shall become the sole source of
regulation of water use and the management and storage of surface
water and groundwater on reservation and Tribal Trust
lands.
(2) All agencies of the state are authorized and
directed to provide such technical assistance as the South Florida
Water Management District may require in implementing the terms of
the water rights compact to be entered with the Seminole Tribe of
Indians of Florida pursuant to subsection (1).
History: ss. 2, 3, ch. 87-292; s. 12, ch. 91-221.
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