1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Lake Bistineau Land Title Stability Act . 2. Findings and purpose (a) Findings Congress finds that— (1) on December 8, 1842, the Surveyor General approved an original survey of land in northern Louisiana, which included the land surrounding Lake Bistineau; (2) under the equal footing doctrine, the State of Louisiana was entitled to the land underlying the navigable waters in place within the boundaries of the State as of the date on which the State joined the Union; (3) the State of Louisiana delineated the ownership of the land in the State based on the Original Survey; (4) in 1901, the State of Louisiana— (A) transferred more than 7,000 acres of land to the commissioners of the Bossier Levee District through Louisiana Act Number 89 of 1892; and (B) conducted a survey that followed the same path around Lake Bistineau as the path included in the Original Survey; (5) in 1904, the Bossier Levee District subsequently conveyed the land described in paragraph (4)(A) to private ownership; (6) parcels of the land described in paragraph (4)(A) were bought and sold in good faith based on the stability of the title to the land; (7) on September 16, 1967, the Bureau of Land Management submitted a resurvey of the land described in paragraph (4)(A) for S30–T16N–R10W and 2 adjacent islands, which presented a new line to represent what the Bureau of Land Management surveyors believed to be the contour of Lake Bistineau as of the date on which the State of Louisiana joined the Union; (8) on January 15, 1969, the Bureau of Land Management approved the Resurvey; (9) on February 27, 1969, notice of the filing of the Resurvey was filed in the Federal Register (34 Fed. Reg. 2677), but the Bureau of Land Management has presented no records of further notice provided to the affected landowners regarding— (A) the effects of the Resurvey; or (B) the right of affected landowners to contest the Resurvey