§410ccc–1 Establishment

Summary

Creates the Cane River Creole National Historical Park in Louisiana to help protect, explain, and teach about Creole culture and the Natchitoches region’s history, and to give technical help to many public and private landowners and preservation groups. The park includes lands and buildings tied to Oakland Plantation shown on map CARI, 80,002 dated January 1994; lands and buildings owned or acquired by Museum Contents, Inc. shown on map CARI, 80,001A dated May 1994; other sites that can be covered by cooperative agreements with the National Park Service (including places like Melrose Plantation, the Badin-Rouge 11 So in original, Cherokee Plantation, Beau Fort Plantation, and sites in the Natchitoches National Historical Landmark District) — but those sites can only be added after the Secretary of the Interior finds, after more research and planning, that they meet rules for national historical importance, suitability, and feasibility, and after notifying the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the appropriate House committees. The Secretary may also set aside up to 10 acres for a visitor center complex, and the park includes the about 46.1 acres shown as “Proposed Addition” on the map numbered 494/176,958 dated October 2021.