109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1515
AN ACT 
To adjust the boundary of the Barataria Preserve Unit of 
the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve 
in the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Jean Lafitte National 
Historical Park and Preserve Boundary Adjustment Act 
of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK AND 
PRESERVE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 901 of the National Parks 
and Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 230) is amended 
in the second sentence by striking ‘‘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,’’ and inserting 
‘‘23,000 acres generally depicted on the map titled 
‘Boundary Map, Barataria Preserve Unit, Jean Lafitte 
National Historical Park and Preserve’, numbered 467/
80100, and dated August 2002,’’. 
(b) ACQUISITION OF LAND.—Section 902 of the Na-
tional Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 230a) 
is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘(a) Within the’’ and all 
that follows through the first sentence and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(1) BARATARIA PRESERVE UNIT.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may 
acquire any land, water, and interests in land 
and water within the boundary of the Barataria 
Preserve Unit, as depicted on the map de-
scribed in section 901, by donation, purchase 
with donated or appropriated funds, but only 
with the consent of the owner, transfer from 
any other Federal agency, or exchange. 
‘‘(B) LIMITATIONS.—
‘‘(I) FEDERAL
LAND.—Any Federal 
land acquired in the areas identified on the 
map as the ‘Bayou aux Carpes Addition’ 
and ‘CIT Tract Addition’ (the ‘Areas’) 
shall be transferred without consideration 
to the administrative jurisdiction of the 
National Park Service. 
‘‘(II) EASEMENTS.—Any Federal land 
in the Areas that is transferred under 
clause (I) shall be subject to any ease-
ments that have been agreed to by the Sec-
retary and the Secretary of the Army. 
‘‘(III) PRIVATE INTERESTS.—Any pri-
vate land, water, or interests in land and 
water in the Barataria Preserve Unit may
be acquired by the Secretary only with the 
consent of the owner.’’; 
(B) in the second sentence, by striking 
‘‘The Secretary may also’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) FRENCH QUARTER.—The Secretary may’’; 
(C) in the third sentence, by striking 
‘‘Lands, waters, and interests therein’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(3) ACQUISITION
OF
STATE
LAND.—Land, 
water, and interests in land and water’’; and 
(D) in the fourth sentence, by striking ‘‘In 
acquiring’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(4) ACQUISITION OF OIL AND GAS RIGHTS.—
In acquiring’’; 
(2) by striking subsections (b) through (f) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(b) RESOURCE PROTECTION.—With respect to the 
land, water, and interests in land and water of the 
Barataria Preserve Unit, the Secretary shall preserve and 
protect—
‘‘(1) fresh water drainage patterns; 
‘‘(2) vegetative cover; 
‘‘(3) the integrity of ecological and biological 
systems; and
‘‘(4) water and air quality.’’; and 
(3) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-
section (c). 
(c) HUNTING, FISHING, AND TRAPPING.—Section 
905 of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 
(16 U.S.C. 230d) is amended in the first sentence—
(1) by inserting after ‘‘Barataria Marsh Unit’’ 
‘‘, but only as to land, water, or interests in land 
and water managed by the Secretary’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘within the core area’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘he may’’ and inserting ‘‘the 
Secretary may’’. 
(d) ADMINISTRATION.—Section 906 of the National 
Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 230e) is 
amended—
(1) by striking the first sentence; and 
(2) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘Pend-
ing such establishment and thereafter the’’ and in-
serting ‘‘The’’. 
SEC. 3. REFERENCES IN LAW. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any reference in a law (including 
regulations), map, document, paper, or other record of the 
United States—