---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 698m"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "698m"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations for Big Cypress Preserve and Addition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/698m"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §698m. Authorization of appropriations for Big Cypress Preserve and Addition

- (a) Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections [698f](/usc/16/698f.md) to [698m–4](/usc/16/698m–4.md) of this title, but not to exceed $156,700,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interests in lands and not to exceed $900,000 for development. Any funds donated to the United States by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Florida pursuant to chapter 73–131 of the Florida statutes shall be used solely for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and interests in land within the [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2).
- (b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from the Land and Water Conservation Fund not to exceed $49,500,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands within the [Addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2). There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for development in the [Addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–440, § 8, Oct. 11, 1974, 88 Stat. 1261; Pub. L. 95–625, title II, § 201(1), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3473; Pub. L. 100–301, § 7, Apr. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 446.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–301, § 7(1), designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted “Except as provided in subsection (b), there” for “There”, and added subsec. (b).

1978—Pub. L. 95–625 increased land acquisition appropriations authorization to $156,700,000 from $116,000,000.