MICCOSUKEE TRIBE v. SO. FL. WATER DIST.

No. 98-1254.

721 So.2d 389 (1998)

MICCOSUKEE TRIBE OF INDIANS OF FLORIDA and Friends of the Everglades, Appellants, v. SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT and Department of Environmental Protection, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lehtinen, O'Donnell, Vargas & Reiner and Dione C. Carroll, Miami, for Appellants.

Barbara Markham, Keith W. Rizzardi and Perla Sole-Calas, West Palm Beach, for Appellee South Florida Water Management District.

F. Perry Odom, Stacey D. Cowley and Charles T. Collette, Tallahassee, for Appellee Department of Environmental Protection.

Gunster, Yoakley, Valdes-Fauli & Stewart and William L. Hyde, Tallahassee, for Appellee United States Sugar Corporation.

Hopping Green Sams & Smith and Gary V. Perko, Tallahassee, for Appellees Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, Roth Farms, Inc. and Wedgeworth Farms, Inc.

Before NESBITT, GODERICH and SORONDO, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The petitioners, Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida and Friends of the Everglades, appeal from a final order of the Department of Environmental Protection granting a Non-Everglades Construction Project Permit that would allow the continued maintenance and operation of thirty-seven flood control structures that discharge water into, within, or from the Everglades Protection Area. We affirm.

First, we find that the administrative law judge properly...

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