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Special Act the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County. In 2009 Terrell Sessums was honored by having a Tampa Bay Environmental Excellence Award named after him. Subsequently, there have been 4 winners of the Terrell Sessums Environmental Award. Sessums Mall on the campus of the University of South Florida was dedicated in 1999.
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