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Union Calendar No. 597 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3392 
[Report No. 115–768] 
To provide for stability of title to certain land in the State of Louisiana, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 25, 2017 
Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Natural Resources 
JUNE 20, 2018 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 25, 2017] 
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A BILL 
To provide for stability of title to certain land in the State 
of Louisiana, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Lake Bistineau Land 
Title Stability Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to issue a recordable disclaimer of interest of 
the United States in and to— 
(1) any land described in paragraphs (1) and 
(2) of subsection (a) of section 4 that is located out-
side the record meander lines of the Original Survey 
described in that subsection; and 
(2) any omitted land. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) OMITTED LAND.—The term ‘‘omitted land’’ 
means any land in S30–T16N–R10W, including ad-
jacent islands and the meander lines of the water 
body, that was in place during the Original Survey, 
but that was not included in the Original Survey, re-
gardless of whether the exclusion of the land was due 
to gross error in the Original Survey or fraud by any 
individual conducting the Original Survey. 
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(2) ORIGINAL
SURVEY.—The term ‘‘Original 
Survey’’ means the survey of land in northern Lou-
isiana approved by the Surveyor General on Decem-
ber 8, 1842. 
(3) RESURVEY.—The term ‘‘Resurvey’’ means the 
document entitled ‘‘Dependent Re-Survey, Extension 
Survey and Survey of Two Islands, Sections 17, 29, 
and 30’’, which was completed on November 24, 1967, 
approved on January 15, 1969, and published in the 
Federal Register on February 27, 1969 (34 Fed. Reg. 
2677). 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 4. MEANDER LINES; RECORDABLE DISCLAIMER OF IN-
TEREST. 
(a) MEANDER LINES.—The meander lines in the 
Original Survey are definitive for purposes of determining 
title to— 
(1) the land in S30–T16N–R10W; and 
(2) the 2 islands adjacent to the land described 
in paragraph (1). 
(b) RECORDABLE DISCLAIMER OF INTEREST.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall prepare a 
recordable disclaimer of interest in which the United 
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Union Calendar No. 597 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3392 
[Report No. 115–768] 
A BILL 
To provide for stability of title to certain land in 
the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes. 
JUNE 20, 2018 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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