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[CITE: 16USC230]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER XXV--JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
                            Part A--Generally
 
Sec. 230. Establishment; description of area

    In order to preserve for the education, inspiration, and benefit of 
present and future generations significant examples of natural and 
historical resources of the Mississippi Delta region and to provide for 
their interpretation in such manner as to portray the development of 
cultural diversity in the region, there is authorized to be established 
in the State of Louisiana the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and 
Preserve (hereinafter referred to as the ``park''). The park shall 
consist of (1) the area of approximately twenty thousand acres generally 
depicted on the map entitled ``Barataria Marsh Unit-Jean Lafitte 
National Historical Park and Preserve'' numbered 90,000B and dated April 
1978, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 
office of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior; (2) the 
area known as Big Oak Island; (3) an area or areas within the French 
Quarter section of the city of New Orleans as may be designated by the 
Secretary of the Interior for an interpretive and administrative 
facility; (4) folk life centers to be established in the Acadian region; 
(5) the Chalmette National Historical Park; and (6) such additional 
natural, cultural, and historical resources in the French Quarter and 
Garden District of New Orleans, forts in the delta region, plantations, 
and Acadian towns and villages in the Saint Martinville area and such 
other areas and sites as are subject to cooperative agreements in 
accordance with the provisions of this part.

(Pub. L. 95-625, title IX, Sec. 901, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3534; Pub. 
L. 100-250, Sec. 1(a), Feb. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 16.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-250 added cl. (4) and redesignated former cls. (4) 
and (5) as (5) and (6), respectively.


                     Laura C. Hudson Visitor Center

    Pub. L. 104-333, div. I, title VIII, Sec. 808, Nov. 12, 1996, 110 
Stat. 4188, provided that:
    ``(a) Designation.--The visitor center at Jean Lafitte National 
Historical Park, located at 419 Rue Decatur in New Orleans, Louisiana, 
is hereby designated as the `Laura C. Hudson Visitor Center'.
    ``(b) Legal References.--Any reference in any law, regulation, 
paper, record, map, or any other document of the United States to the 
visitor center referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a 
reference to the `Laura C. Hudson Visitor Center'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 230a, 230c of this title.
