Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act
Key claim: The Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act expands the Miccosukee Reserved Area to include Osceola Camp in Everglades National Park and directs Interior to protect camp structures from flooding.
Abstract
(HR504 · 119th Congress) Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act This bill expands the Miccosukee Reserved Area to include a portion of Everglades National Park in Florida that is known as Osceola Camp. The Department of the Interior, in consultation with the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, must take appropriate actions to protect structures within the Osceola Camp from flooding. Latest action (2026-01-08): The Chair directed the Clerk to notify the Senate of the action of the House.
Why this matters
The Act adjusts the boundary of federally-recognized tribal reserved land inside a national park and layers a federal flood-protection duty onto residential-style structures (the Osceola Camp), a narrow but notable intersection of tribal land jurisdiction and floodplain management. For Housing & Land Use tracking, it illustrates how Congress occasionally uses tribal boundary statutes to embed built-environment protections (flood resilience) rather than routing them through HUD or FEMA programs.
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| Relation | Item | Note |
|---|---|---|
| acts on | “Each federal agency shall take action to reduce flood loss risk, minimize floods' impact on human safety, and restore and preserve natural values of floodplains when carrying out land management, construction, and land-use programs.” — Executive Order 11988—Floodplain Management | The bill directs Interior to protect Osceola Camp structures from flooding, concretely advancing the EO mandate that agencies reduce flood-loss risk and minimize floods' impact on human safety in land-management actions. |