[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2014 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2014

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire property adjacent 
to the city of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, for inclusion in 
  the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 1, 1996

  Mr. Johnston (for himself and Mr. Breaux) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire property adjacent 
to the city of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, for inclusion in 
  the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REFUGE EXPANSION.

    Section 502 of the Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986 (Public 
Law 99-645; 100 Stat. 3590), is amended by inserting following the 
first sentence in subsection (b)(1) the following sentence: ``In 
addition, the Secretary is authorized to acquire, within such period as 
may be necessary, an area of approximately 4,228 acres, consisting of 
approximately 3,928 acres located north of Interstate 10 between Little 
Woods and Pointe-aux-Herbes and approximately 300 acres south of 
Interstate 10 between the Maxent Canal and Michoud Boulevard that 
contains the Big Oak Island archeological site, as depicted upon a map 
entitled ``Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge Expansion'', dated 
August, 1996 and on file with the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service.''

SEC. 2. NAME CHANGE.

    Section 502 of the Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986 (Public 
Law 99-645; 100 Stat. 3590), is further amended by deleting the word 
``Urban'' wherever it appears in the section.
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