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[CITE: 16USC231a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER XXV--JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
                         Part B--Chalmette Unit
 
Sec. 231a. Additional lands

    Upon the vesting of title in the United States to such additional 
lands as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary 
and desirable for the purposes of the Chalmette Unit of the Jean Lafitte 
National Historical Park, such lands shall become a part of the said 
park and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable 
thereto: Provided, however, That the total area included within the said 
park and any enlargement thereof shall not exceed five hundred acres.

(Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 640, Sec. 2, 53 Stat. 1342; Pub. L. 95-625, title 
IX, Sec. 909, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3538.)

                         Change of Name

    Chalmette National Historical Park redesignated Chalmette Unit of 
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and references to Park deemed 
references to Chalmette Unit pursuant to Pub. L. 95-625, title IX, 
Sec. 909, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3538, which is classified to section 
230h of this title.


                          Acquisition of Lands

    Section 5 of Pub. L. 87-759, Oct. 9, 1962, 76 Stat. 756, provided:
    ``Within the boundaries of Chalmette National Historical Park as 
designated by the Secretary of the Interior on March 20, 1958, pursuant 
to the Act of August 10, 1939 (53 Stat. 1342), and depicted on drawing 
numbered NHP-CHAL-7008, said Secretary, notwithstanding the proviso in 
section 3 of said Act, is hereby authorized to acquire the following 
lands and interests in lands with funds heretofore appropriated and 
otherwise available for such purpose;
    ``Beginning at the point of intersection of the west line of 
Fazendeville Road with a line 50 feet south of southerly boundary of 
right-of-way of the Louisiana Southern Railway at coordinate point X--
2,425,730.76 and Y--467,506.11; (the bearings and coordinates herein 
stated are in accord with the Louisiana geodetic survey plane grid 
system); and running thence south 66 degrees 32 minutes 46 seconds east, 
parallel to said southerly boundary of right-of-way of Louisiana 
Southern Railway, a distance of 30 feet to coordinate point X--
2,425,758.28 and Y--467,494.17; thence south 23 degrees 45 minutes 21 
seconds west for a distance of 917.90 feet along the east right-of-way 
of Fazendeville Road to a point;
    ``Thence south 66 degrees 14 minutes 39 seconds east for a distance 
of 161.83 feet to a point; thence south 23 degrees 45 minutes 21 seconds 
west on a line parallel to Fazendeville Road for a distance of 1,406.51 
feet to a point; thence north 64 degrees 19 minutes 9 seconds west for a 
distance of 161.92 feet to a point on the east right-of-way of 
Fazendeville Road; thence south 23 degrees 45 minutes 21 seconds west 
along the east right-of-way of Fazendeville Road for a distance of 19.41 
feet to a point;
    ``Thence south 64 degrees 19 minutes 9 seconds east for a distance 
of 95.70 feet to a point; thence south 23 degrees 45 minutes 21 seconds 
west on a line parallel to Fazendeville Road for a distance of 54.90 
feet to a point; thence north 64 degrees 19 minutes 9 seconds west for a 
distance of 95.70 feet to a point on the east right-of-way of 
Fazendeville Road; thence south 23 degrees 45 minutes 21 seconds along 
the east right-of-way of Fazendeville Road for a distance of 279.44 feet 
to a point;
    ``Thence crossing Fazendeville Road on a line running north 49 
degrees 02 minutes 49 seconds west for a distance of 31.40 feet to a 
point on the west right-of-way of Fazendeville Road; thence north 23 
degrees 45 minutes 21 seconds east along the west right-of-way of 
Fazendeville Road for a distance of 2,663.28 feet to a point which is 
the point of beginning; containing 7.02 acres more or less, including 
1.83 acres more or less within the right-of-way of the Fazendeville 
Road; and excluding lot 15, as shown on a map of survey by F. C. 
Gandolfo, Junior, dated January 9, 1953, and being in section 10 of 
township 13 south, range 12 east, parish of Saint Bernard, State of 
Louisiana, and known locally as Fazendeville.''
