IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3392 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 26, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
To provide for stability of title to certain land 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, 
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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. 
(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. 
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(3) RESURVEY.—The term ‘‘Resurvey’’ means 
the document entitled ‘‘Dependent Re-Survey, Ex-
tension Survey and Survey of Two Islands, Sections 
17, 29, and 30’’, which was completed on November 
24, 1967, approved on January 15, 1969, and pub-
lished 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 States conveys and disclaims any right, title, 
or interest of the United States in and to— 
(A) any land described in paragraphs (1) 
and (2) of subsection (a) that is located outside 
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the recorded meander lines described in that 
subsection; and 
(B) any omitted land. 
(2) FILING.—The Secretary shall record the 
disclaimer of interest prepared under paragraph (1) 
in the appropriate local office in the State of Lou-
isiana in which real property documents are re-
corded. 
(3) INCLUSIONS.—The disclaimer of interest 
filed under paragraph (2) shall include legal descrip-
tions of the land subject to the disclaimer of interest 
using the lot or tract numbers included in the Re-
survey. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 25, 2018. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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