---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 698l"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "698l"
heading: "Review of Big Cypress Preserve area and Addition area by Secretary; report to President"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/698l"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §698l. Review of Big Cypress Preserve area and Addition area by Secretary; report to President


Within five years from October 11, 1974, with respect to the [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) and five years from April 29, 1988, with respect to the [Addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall review the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) or the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the [Addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) (as the case may be) and shall report to the President, in accordance with [section 1132(c)](/usc/16/1132.md?p=c) and (d) of this title, his recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) or the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the [Addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) (as the case may be) for preservation as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13), and any designation of any such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as a [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) shall be accomplished in accordance with [section 1132(c)](/usc/16/1132.md?p=c) and (d) of this title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–440, § 7, Oct. 11, 1974, 88 Stat. 1261; Pub. L. 100–301, § 3(c), Apr. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 444.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–301 inserted “with respect to the preserve and five years from April 29, 1988, with respect to the Addition” after “October 11, 1974,” and “or the area within the Addition (as the case may be)” after “preserve” in two places.