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[CITE: 16USC230f]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER XXV--JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
                            Part A--Generally
 
Sec. 230f. Delta Region Preservation Commission


(a) Establishment; membership

    There is established the Delta Region Preservation Commission 
(hereinafter referred to as the ``Commission''), which shall consist of 
the following:
        (1) two members appointed by the Governor of the State of 
    Louisiana;
        (2) two members appointed by the Secretary from recommendations 
    submitted by the President of Jefferson Parish;
        (3) two members appointed by the Secretary from recommendations 
    submitted by the Jefferson Parish Council;
        (4) two members appointed by the Secretary from recommendations 
    submitted by the mayor of the city of New Orleans;
        (5) one member appointed by the Secretary from recommendations 
    submitted by the commercial fishing industry;
        (6) three members appointed by the Secretary from 
    recommendations submitted by local citizen conservation 
    organizations in the delta region;
        (7) one member appointed by the Chairman of the National 
    Endowment for the Arts; and
        (8) \1\ two members appointed by the Secretary from 
    recommendations submitted by the Police Jury of Saint Bernard 
    Parish.
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    \1\ So in original. There are two pars. designated ``(8)''.
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        (8) \1\ one member who shall have experience as a folklorist and 
    who is familiar with the cultures of the Mississippi Delta Region 
    appointed by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

(b) Compensation and expenses

    Members of the Commission shall serve without compensation as such. 
The Secretary is authorized to pay the expenses reasonably incurred by 
the non-Federal members of the Commission in carrying out their duties.

(c) Functions

    The function of the Commission shall be to advise the Secretary in 
the selection of sites for inclusion in the park, in the development and 
implementation of a general management plan, and in the development and 
implementation of a comprehensive interpretive program of the natural, 
historic, and cultural resources of the region. The Commission shall 
inform interested members of the public, the State of Louisiana and its 
political subdivisions, and interested Federal agencies with respect to 
existing and proposed actions and programs having a material effect on 
the perpetuation of a high-quality natural and cultural environment in 
the delta region.

(d) Majority voting; generally; single parish or municipality

    The Commission shall act and advise by affirmative vote of a 
majority of its members: Provided, That any recommendation of the 
Commission that affects the use or development, or lack thereof, of 
property located solely within a single parish or municipality shall 
have the concurrence of a majority of the members appointed from 
recommendations submitted by such parish or municipality.

(e) Ex officio members; staff support and technical services; 
        termination date

    The Directors of the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 
and the National Park Service shall serve as ex officio members of the 
Commission and provide such staff support and technical services as may 
be necessary to carry out the functions of the Commission. The 
Commission shall terminate twenty years from November 10, 1978.

(Pub. L. 95-625, title IX, Sec. 907, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3537; Pub. 
L. 96-87, title IV, Sec. 401(q)(3), (4), Oct. 12, 1979, 93 Stat. 666; 
Pub. L. 100-250, Sec. 1(c), Feb. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 16; Pub. L. 100-
355, Sec. 2, June 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 667.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Subsec. (a)(6), (7). Pub. L. 100-355, Sec. 2(1), (2), which 
directed that in par. (6) ``region;'' be substituted for ``region; and'' 
and that in par. (7) ``Arts; and'' be substituted for ``Arts.'' could 
not be executed because of prior amendment by section 401(q)(3) of Pub. 
L. 96-87.
    Subsec. (a)(8). Pub. L. 100-355, Sec. 2(3), added par. (8) relating 
to appointment of member with experience as folklorist familiar with 
cultures of Mississippi Delta Region.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 100-250 substituted ``twenty'' for ``ten''.
    1979--Subsec. (a)(8). Pub. L. 96-87, Sec. 401(q)(3), added par. (8).
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 96-87, Sec. 401(q)(4), provided that the 
Commission terminate ten years from November 10, 1978.


                          ``Secretary'' Defined

    Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior, see section 2 of Pub. 
L. 95-625, set out as a note under section 2503 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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