[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2415 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2415

   To direct the Secretary of the Army to expedite completion of the 
 reports for certain projects included in the Comprehensive Everglades 
               Restoration Plan, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 11, 2017

 Mr. Mast (for himself, Mr. Francis Rooney of Florida, Mr. Curbelo of 
 Florida, Mr. Posey, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Bilirakis, Ms. Tenney, Mr. 
 Rutherford, and Mr. Rohrabacher) introduced the following bill; which 
   was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of the Army to expedite completion of the 
 reports for certain projects included in the Comprehensive Everglades 
               Restoration Plan, 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. SHORT TITLE; PURPOSES.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Everglades Flow 
Increases Rely on Storage and Treatment Act'' or the ``Everglades FIRST 
Act''.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act include--
            (1) improving surface water reservoir storage capacity in 
        South Florida to meet the goals of the Comprehensive Everglades 
        Restoration Plan;
            (2) achieving the full benefits of the Central Everglades 
        Planning Project; and
            (3) producing environmentally beneficial changes in flow 
        volumes in the Caloosahatchee River, St. Lucie River, 
        Loxahatchee River, and Shark River Slough.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITED COMPLETION OF REPORTS AND CONSTRUCTION FOR CERTAIN 
              PROJECTS INCLUDED IN COMPREHENSIVE EVERGLADES RESTORATION 
              PLAN, FLORIDA.

    The Secretary shall expedite completion of the reports for each of 
the following projects and, if the Secretary determines that a project 
is feasible in the completed report, expedite completion of 
construction of the project:
            (1) Everglades Agricultural Area Storage Reservoirs, 
        Florida.
            (2) Loxahatchee River Watershed Restoration Project, 
        Florida.
            (3) Lake Okeechobee Watershed Restoration Project, Florida.
            (4) Western Everglades Restoration Project, Florida.
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