Article: SEN. LANDRIEU CALLS FOR HEARINGS INTO ARMY CORPS' LEVEE REPORT MODIFICATIONS

The office of Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., issued the following press release:

Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., responded today to the release of an Army Corps of Engineers Hurricane Protection Study preliminary report expected to outline steps for providing Category 5 hurricane protection for the Louisiana coast. The report was delivered 10 days past the June 30 deadline mandated by Congress.

Sen. Landrieu, who as a member of the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Conference Committee inserted the language requesting the report in the Fiscal Year 2006 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, said today:

"Levee and flood control is a life or death situation for the people of coastal ...

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