Breaux Act Newsflash - CPRA New Orleans Meeting Project List and Agenda
***********************************************************************Agenda and Project Recommendations List for Today's CPRA Meeting in New
Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -- The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority will conduct
an emergency public meeting at the University of New Orleans today at 3 p.m.
to approve hurricane protection and coastal restoration projects to be built
using the $300 million in surplus funds provided by the state legislature
and Governor Bobby Jindal in this year's second special session. The meeting
will be held at the Homer L. Hitt Alumni Center's 2nd Floor Ballroom located
at 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, La. 70148.
CPRA MEETING
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Homer Hitt Alumni Center, 2nd Floor Ballroom
Date and time: August 13, 2008 - 3:00 p.m.
AGENDA:
I. Call to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Motion to adopt Agenda
IV. Discussion/explanation of 30-year payback (Garret Graves)
V. Resolution thanking President Bush and General O'Dell for 30 year pay
back for Greater New Orleans HPS (King Milling)
VI. Presentation on recommendation of surplus fund allocations (Garret
Graves, David Miller, David Fruge, Chris Knotts)
VII. Discussion of surplus fund recommendations
VIII. Public comments on surplus fund recommendations
IX. Consideration of Recommendations
X. Delegation of authority for various agreements
XI. Adjournment
The following is a list of projects recommended for receipt of surplus funds
by the Office of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:
$300 million Total Surplus
$160.5 million Hurricane Protection - State match for federally funded
projects
(all dollar figures below are in millions)
$100 Greater New Orleans -
$50 Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project
(Includes previously committed $2.5M to accelerate building of Inner Harbor
Navigation Canal storm surge protection structure)
$50 West Bank and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project
(Includes previously committed $5M to accelerate West Bank and vicinity
Hurricane Protection Project)
$55 Morganza-to-the Gulf & Larose -to-Golden Meadow Hurricane Protection
Projects
$40 Morganza-to-the-Gulf
$15 Larose-to-Golden Meadow
$5.5 Southwest Louisiana Coastal Study
$3 Southwest/Chenier
$1.5 Acadiana Gulf of Mexico Access Channel and Hurricane /Ecosystem
Protection (Vermilion, Iberia, St. Mary)
$1 Cameron Creole Levee
$110 Restoration -
$45 Barrier Island Restoration / Shoreline Restoration and Protection
$30 Caminada Headland Barrier Shoreline/Elmer's Island
$15 Cameron Gulf Shoreline Protection
$30 Mississippi River Freshwater Diversions -
$20 Bayou Lafourche
$7 Myrtle Grove
$3 Hope Canal/Maurepas Diversion
$20 Beneficial Use of Dredge Spoil from navigation channels
$15 Pipeline conveyance of dredge spoil/dedicated dredging
$16 Innovative coast-wide initiatives
$13.5 Emergency Reserve/Accelerated Advancement of High Priority Project
$300 Million Total
A map of the UNO Campus can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.uno.edu/university/maps/pdf/maincampusmap.pdf
If you need additional information, please call Chris Macaluso in The
Governor's Office of Coastal Activities at (225) 342-3968 or email at
chris.macaluso@la.gov
***********************************************************************