FINDINGS.

SEC. 101. FINDINGS. The Congress finds and declares that— (1) there is a history of adverse claims and title confusion relating to certain lands in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, arising from private land claims predating the Louisiana Purchase; (2) numerous parties have in good faith placed valuable improvements upon such lands in the belief that they owned such lands; and (3) the public interest will be best served by clarifying the uncertainty of title by conveying the interest of the United States in such lands to those affected parties.