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ARBC reports legislation progress, public master-plan meetings and $1.2 billion in Corps projects in basin
Summary
Executive Director Paul Sawyer told the ARBC on June 10 that two endorsed bills have gone to the governor, master-plan public meetings are scheduled across the basin, and the basin hosts about $1.2 billion in active Corps of Engineers projects, including a $255 million East Baton Rouge flood-control program.
Executive Director Paul Sawyer briefed the Amite River Basin Commission on legislative steps, public outreach for the ARBC master plan, capital-outlay requests and multiple U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects underway in the basin.
Sawyer said the Louisiana legislature sent two bills the commission endorsed to the governor: HB 165 (which removes a current deadline by which ARBC must promulgate rules and regulations but retains the substantive rulemaking requirement) and HB 172 (which extends an exemption under the Scenic Rivers Act to Bayou Manchac, preserving current LWI-related activities across multiple parishes). Sawyer said he personally testified three times before House and Senate committees on the bills and thanked Representative Cathy Edmondston, Senator Eddie Lambert and other…
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