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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 118–177: To expand the boundaries of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area to include Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.</dc:title>
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<citableAs>Public Law 118–177</citableAs><citableAs>138 Stat. 2611</citableAs>
<approvedDate>2024-12-23</approvedDate>
<dc:date>2024-12-23</dc:date>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 118–177—DEC. 23, 2024</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/138/2611">138 STAT. 2611</page>
<dc:type>Public Law</dc:type><docNumber>118–177</docNumber>
<congress value="118">118th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To expand the boundaries of the Atchafalaya <sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x2e40d74a-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2024-12-23">Dec. 23, 2024</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x2e40d74b-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/118/hr/6843">H.R. 6843</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote>National Heritage Area to include Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.</officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d38448e86" identifier="/us/pl/118/177/s1" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA EXPANSION.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x2e40fe5c-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Section 213 of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area Act (subtitle B of title II of <sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="x2e40fe5d-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180"><ref href="/us/usc/t54/s120102">54 USC 120102 note</ref>.</p></sidenote><ref href="/us/pl/109/338">Public Law 109–338</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="y2e40fe5e-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/118/177/s1/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in subsection (b), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and Ascension Parish</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Ascension, and Lafourche Parish</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="fontsize10" id="y2e40fe5f-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/118/177/s1/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>in subsection (c)(2), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>14</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>15</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2024-12-23">December 23, 2024</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/118/hr/6843">H.R. 6843</ref>:</heading>
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<headingText style="-uslm-lc:I658032">HOUSE REPORTS:</headingText> ┐No. <ref href="/us/hrpt/118/736">118–736</ref> (<committee>Comm. on Natural Resources</committee>).
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):</heading>
<p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x2e40fe60-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">Dec. 3, considered and passed House.</p><p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x2e40fe61-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">Dec. 17, considered and passed Senate.</p></note>
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