Breaux Act Newsflash - CWPPRA Regional Planning Team (RPT) Schedule
***********************************************************************Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Regional
Planning Team (RPT) Basin Subcommittee Meetings for the 15th Priority
Project List Are Announced.
The CWPPRA Regional Planning Teams (RPT) will meet to develop projects for
inclusion into the upcoming 15th Priority Project List (PPL15). At these
meetings coastal restoration projects for the each coastal region may be
proposed. These proposals will be considered as possible nominees for the
PPL 15 project evaluation process. No more than one project per basin
will be chosen as a nominee, except that two projects may be chosen from
Terrebonne and Barataria basins because of the high loss rates in those
basins. A total of eleven projects will be accepted as nominations for the
entire coastal area.
All meetings will be co-chaired by the RPT leader and either a member of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or LA Department of Natural Resources to
ensure consistency with procedures coastwide. These meetings will have a
formal agenda and written procedures. A lead agency will be assigned to
each nominated project in order to develop fact sheets.
Schedules for the upcoming meetings are as follows:
Region 4
February 1, 2005
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
Rockefeller Refuge (Camp next to Headquarters Building.)
Grand Cheniere, Louisiana
The refuge is located 14 Miles east of Grand Cheniere, just South of
Highway 82.
Region 3
Terrebonne Basin
February 2, 2005
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Morgan City Auditorium
West Concourse
728 Myrtle St.
Morgan City, LA
Region 3
Atchafalaya Basin
February 2, 2005
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Morgan City Auditorium
West Concourse
728 Myrtle St.
Morgan City, LA
Region 3
Teche-Vermillion Basin
February 2, 2005
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Morgan City Auditorium
West Concourse
728 Myrtle St.
Morgan City, LA
Region 2
February 3, 2005
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District
Room 251
7400 Leake Ave.
New Orleans, LA
Region 1
February 3, 2005
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District
Room 251
7400 Leake Ave.
New Orleans, LA
RPT Leaders
Region 1 - Dan Llewellyn/Phil Pittman - LA Department of Natural Resources
Region 2 - Greg Miller - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Region 3 - Ronnie Paille - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Region 4 - Darryl Clark - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
More information regarding CWPPRA activities may be found at the following
site:
www.lacoast.gov/cwppra/ or
www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pd/cwppra_mission.htm
For additional information contact Ms. Julie Z. LeBlanc at (504) 862-1597.
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