Breaux Act Newsflash - Legislature Unanimously Adopts CPRA Master Plan as the Blueprint for Coast's Future
***********************************************************************Legislature Unanimously Adopts CPRA Master Plan as the Blueprint for
Coast's Future
Governor Blanco to Discuss Historic Legislation at Friday Press Conference
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco will hold a press conference
at 10:30 a.m., Friday, June 1 in the fourth-floor press room of the State
Capitol to discuss the Louisiana Legislature's historic adoption of the
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority's comprehensive master plan
for coastal restoration and hurricane protection.
The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously approved the plan
Wednesday, marking the last step in the legislative adoption process. Both
the master and fiscal year 2008 annual plans were introduced to the
legislature April 30 and were unanimously adopted by the both the House
and Senate Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and Natural
Resources as well as the full Senate before being adopted by the full
House.
The master plan represents the first time Louisiana's history that the
restoration of coastal wetlands has been integrated fully with hurricane
protection of coastal communities and the national assets located in the
coastal zone. The CPRA's Integrated Planning Team completed the Master
Plan in late April of this year after more than a year of extensive
research, scientific input, public discussion and stakeholder meetings.
The master plan can be viewed at www.lacpra.org/masterplanfinal The fiscal
year 2008 annual plan can be viewed at www.lacpra.org/2008annualplan
For more information, please contact Chris Macaluso in the Governor's
Office of Coastal Activities at (225) 342-3968 or by email at
chris.macaluso@la.gov.
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