BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Jindal administration won’t be asking to keep the Louisiana Recovery Authority around any longer than its expiration date of July 2010, the head of the agency said Monday.

LRA Executive Director Paul Rainwater said he told Gov. Bobby Jindal the hurricane recovery agency should be allowed to expire when Jindal asked him about the need for a possible extension.

‘‘Everybody in my agency knows they’re a temporary employee,’’ Rainwater told the Press Club of Baton Rouge.

The shuttering of the LRA won’t necessarily mean the elimination of all 23 jobs that are filled there. Continuing hurricane recovery work will be handled by the governor’s office of emergency preparedness and a disaster recovery office under the governor’s Division of Administration, and some LRA staff could shift to those agencies, Rainwater said.

Examples of jobs that would disappear, a spokeswoman for the recovery authority said, are Rainwater’s post, the LRA deputy director, administrative support jobs and three communications positions.

The LRA was created by Gov. Kathleen Blanco in 2005 after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It was put into law shortly thereafter by the Legislature, but it was given an expiration date.

Any extension of its existence would require approval from lawmakers. Along with Katrina and Rita recovery, the agency has worked on efforts to rebuild after hurricanes Gustav and Ike damaged Louisiana last year.