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U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE)
The Coastal Wetlands
Planning, Protection and Restoration Act program (CWPPRA or "Breaux
Act") provides for targeted funds to be used for planning and implementing
projects that create, protect, restore and enhance wetlands in coastal
Louisiana. It was passed in 1990, and is authorized until 2019. By July
2008, 145 active CWPPRA projects have been approved, 74 have been constructed,
17 are under construction, and 26 have been de-authorized or transferred
to another program. The CWPPRA program anticipates receiving $84M in
Federal funds for FY09 and is managed by the CWPPRA Task Force.
The Task Force
is composed of the State of Louisiana and five Federal agencies: the
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), USDA-Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), NOAA-National
Marine Fisheries Service, and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The Governor’s
Office of Coastal Activities represents the state of Louisiana.
The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers administers accounting and tracks project status of
all CWPPRA projects. Project Status Reports of all approved CWPPRA projects
and projects in progress may be found below. The USACE also constructs
those approved CWPPRA projects whenever the USACE is assigned lead agency
for that project. All other projects are constructed by one of four other
Federal agencies. Websites links are listed below including the official
LACOAST CWPPRA site).
The Task Force manages the CWPPRA program including project
selection and construction is composed of following members:
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers |
Chair,
Colonel Al Lee |
U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service |
Jim
Boggs |
Natural
Resource Conservation Service |
Kevin
Norton |
Environmental
Protection Agency |
William
Honker |
National
Marine Fisheries Service |
Christopher
Doley |
The
State of Louisiana, Governor’s Office |
Garret
Graves |
To address projected
future loss of coastal Louisiana larger projects with more ecosystem-scale
impacts must be constructed which exceeds the funding capacity and authorization
period of CWPPRA. Therefore the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) initiative
began in 2001, which seeks future Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)
authorization to address the need for future funding of large scale coastal
Restoration. (LCA site
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