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            A.(1) The Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority shall have only that exclusive jurisdiction as provided herein over a structure, a series of structures, or a facility constructed after July 1, 2008, at the lower end of the east bank at Southwest Pass in Plaquemines Parish on state-owned property, described as follows to wit: beginning at a point having latitude 28.953797 degrees north and longitude 89.316072 degrees west; thence proceed to a point having latitude 28.941817 degrees north and 89.316192 degrees west; thence proceed to a point having latitude 28.918486 degrees north and 89.336992 degrees west; thence proceed to a point having latitude 28.918692 degrees north and longitude 89.349631 degrees west; thence proceed to a point having latitude 28.940650 degrees north and longitude 89.353161 degrees west; thence proceed to a point having latitude 28.953931 degrees north and 89.324425 degrees west; thence proceed to the point of beginning and designed to accommodate deep draft vessels and their cargoes, including all intermodal structures, property, and equipment used for transportation, and facilities directly related thereto and necessary or useful to the operation thereof, whether landward, onshore, or seaward of the main structures or facilities themselves, including any facility which is part of a gulf transfer terminal.

            (2) The jurisdiction of the authority shall not include or extend to the construction of authority development program facilities, taking control, regulation, licensing or operation of existing, proposed or future public or private facilities, within the jurisdiction of existing port authorities, port, harbor and terminal districts, or the offshore terminal authority, except by mutual written agreement of the appropriate existing port authority, port, harbor and terminal district, or offshore terminal authority.

            (3) Nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed to affect Louisiana’s claim to its tidelands or the location of Louisiana’s coastline as interpreted by the state of Louisiana.

            (4) Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to limit, restrict, or prevent the ability of any other port authority, port, harbor and terminal district, or offshore terminal authority, to construct, maintain, operate, expand, or create any facility within its jurisdiction.

            B. The authority shall have the right to acquire by permit, lease, sublease, license, grant, purchase, or otherwise, except mineral leases as provided for in La. Rev. Stat. 34:3498(E), water bottoms, wetlands, and lands, inside and outside of the territorial limits of the state of Louisiana, for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the facilities functionally required, related, necessary, or useful to the authority development program. However, when such properties or facilities are located within the jurisdiction of existing port commissions or port, harbor and terminal districts, or the offshore terminal authority, the authority shall enter into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the local governing authority, the appropriate existing port commission, port, harbor and terminal district, or offshore terminal authority.

            C. The authority shall have exclusive power to own, operate, license, or otherwise regulate all terminal facilities within its jurisdiction constructed after July 1, 2008, and property and equipment related to those facilities.

            D. The domicile of the authority shall be in the parish of Plaquemines.

            Acts 2008, No. 699, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2013, No. 22, §1; Acts 2014, No. 471, §1, eff. June 4, 2014; Acts 2020, 2^nd Ex. Sess., No. 55, §1, eff. Nov. 5, 2020.