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 PUBLIC LAW 100-228—DEC. 31, 1987

101 STAT. 1559

(B) The United States shall not be liable directly or indirectly for any claim or cause of action arising from the approved of the Settlement Agreement and compact or exhibits attached thereto. (3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as extinguishing any right, title, interest, or claim to lands or natural resources in the State based on use and occupancy or acquired under Federal or State law by any individual Indian which is not derived from or through the tribe, its predecessor or predecessors in interest, or some other American Indian tribe. (4) Any Indian, Indian nation, or tribe of Indians, other than the Seminole Tribe as defined in section 3(1), or any predecessor or successor in interest, or any member thereof, whose transfer of lands or natural resources is approved or whose aboriginal title or claims is extinguished by paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection may, within a period of one year after publication of the Secretary's finding pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, bring an action against the State and the United States in the United States District Court for the southern district of Florida. Such action shall be in lieu of a suit against any other person, agency, or political subdivision on a cause of action which may have existed in the absence of this subsection. (c) Neither subsection (a) of this section nor section 7 of this Act— (1) enacts present or future laws of the State as Federal law, (2) grants consent to any future changes in the Settlement Agreement or compact that could impose any obligation or liability on the United States, or (3) commits the United States to finance any project or activity not otherwise authorized by Federed law.

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SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR SEMINOLE TRIBE

SEC. 6. (a) Notwithstanding any clouds on title, the Secretary is authorized and directed, as soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, to accept the transfer to the United States, to be held in trust and as a reservation for the use and benefit of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the approximate 15 sections of land being described as follows: Beginning at the southwest comer of section 31, township 48 south. Range 35 east; thence easterly along the south border of sections 31, 32 and 33, township 48 south. Range 35 east, to the westernmost boundary of the levee 28 works in section 33, township 48 south. Range 35 east; thence continuing north along the westernmost boundary of the levee 28 works to the point at which the westernmost boundary of the levee 28 works intersects the southernmost boundary of the levee 4 works in section 9, township 48 south. Range 35 east; thence continuing westerly along the southernmost boundary of the levee 4 worl^ to the point at which the southernmost boundary of the levee 4 works intersects the dividing line between township 48 south. Range 35 east and township 48 south. Range 34 east at the Broward County and Hendry County line; and thence continuing south along said line to the point of beginning; said lands situate, Iying and being in Broward County, Florida, (b) Before the expiration of the 3-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall— (1) conduct a cadastral survey of those portions of the Seminole Federal Reservations in Florida not previously surveyed by

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