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 PUBLIC LAW 106-541—DEC. 11, 2000 114 STAT. 2687 (A) IN GENERAL.—On completion and evaluation of the Reports, wastewater reuse pilot project described in subsection (b)(2)(B)(iv), the Secretary, in an appropriately timed 5- year report, shall describe the results of the evaluation of advanced wastewater reuse in meeting, in a cost-effective manner, the requirements of restoration of the natural system. (B) SUBMISSION. — The Secretary shall submit to Congress the report described in subparagraph (A) before congressional authorization for advanced wastewater reuse is sought. (3) PROJECTS APPROVED WITH LIMITATIONS. —The following projects in the Plan are approved for implementation with limitations: (A) LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.The Federal share for land acquisition in the project to enhance existing wetland systems along the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, including the StazzuUa tract, should be funded through the budget of the Department of the Interior. (B) SOUTHERN CORKSCREW REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM. —The Southern Corkscrew regional ecosystem watershed addition should be accomplished outside the scope of the Plan. (h) ASSURANCE OF PROJECT BENEFITS. — (1) IN GENERAL. — The overarching objective of the Plan is the restoration, preservation, and protection of the South Florida Ecosystem while providing for other water-related needs of the region, including water supply and flood protection. The Plan shall be implemented to ensure the protection of water quality in, the reduction of the loss of fresh water from, the improvement of the environment of the South Florida Ecosystem and to achieve and maintain the benefits to the natural system and human environment described in the Plan, and required pursuant to this section, for as long as the project is authorized. (2) AGREEMENT. — (A) IN GENERAL. —In order to ensure that water generated by the Plan will be made available for the restoration of the natural system, no appropriations, except for any pilot project described in subsection (b)(2)(B), shall be made for the construction of a project contained in the Plan until the President and the Governor enter into a binding agreement under which the State shall ensure, by regulation or other appropriate means, that water made available by each project in the Plan shall not be permitted for a consumptive use or otherwise made unavailable by the State until such time as sufficient reservations of water for the restoration of the natural system are made under State law in accordance with the project implementation report for that project and consistent with the Plan. (B) ENFORCEMENT. — (i) IN GENERAL.— Any person or entity that is aggrieved by a failure of the United States or any other Federal Government instrumentality or agency, or the Governor or any other officer of a State instrumentality or agency, to comply with any provision of the agreement entered into under subparagraph

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