Louisiana Water Resources Projects Act of 2006
Latest action · Dec 8, 2006 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Progress
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- IntroducedDec 8, 2006
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Louisiana Water Resources Projects Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out: (1) the Bayou Sorrel Lock and, conditional on a favorable report, the Port of Iberia, Louisiana, navigation projects; (2) the Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, hurricane and storm damage reduction project; and (3) a program for ecosystem restoration, Louisiana Coastal Area, including modifications needed to five critical ecosystem restoration features due to the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Establishes: (1) the Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Protection and Restoration Task Force; and (2) a Louisiana Water Resources Council within the Mississippi River Commission.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a plan for protecting, preserving, and restoring the coastal Louisiana ecosystem; (2) establish a coastal Louisiana ecosystem science and technology program; (3) study, design, and construct a type A regional visitors center in the vicinity of Morgan City, Louisiana; and (4) conduct a study to determine the feasibility of carrying out a project for navigation improvement at Vidalia, Louisiana.
Authorizes appropriations to: (1) support the relocation of Port of New Orleans deep draft facilities; and (2) the Assistant Secretary to provide relocation assistance to private businesses.
Modifies a flood control project for the Ouachita River and tributaries and directs that the Ouachita River Levees remain a component of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project.
Modifies: (1) the public access feature of the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, Louisiana project; and (2) projects at Red River Waterway, the Calcasieu River and Pass, and East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 8, 2006Introduced in Senate
- Dec 8, 2006Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Water Resources Development.
- Animals
- Arkansas
- Barrier islands
- Biological diversity
- Canals
- Coastal engineering
- Coastal zone
- Congress
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction costs
- Disaster insurance
- Disaster relief
- Drainage
- Dredging
- Economic development
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Emergency Management
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental technology
- Estuaries
- Farm lands
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to water resources development
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fishery management
- Flood control
- Flood damage prevention
- Floods
- Forest management
- Geology
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Gulf of Mexico
- Habitat conservation
- Harbors
- Hurricane aftermath legislation
- Hurricanes
- Intracoastal waterways
- Lakes
- Land subsidence
- Louisiana
- Maintenance and repair
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine terminals
- Mississippi River
- Navigation
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Reforestation
- Relocation
- Restoration ecology
- Revolving funds
- River basin commissions
- Rivers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sedimentation
- Shore protection
- Soil erosion
- Tourism
- Transportation and Public Works
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
- Waterways
- Wetlands
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 8, 2006Introduced in Senate
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