|
|
Article: SEN. LANDRIEU CALLS FOR HEARINGS INTO ARMY CORPS' LEVEE REPORT MODIFICATIONS
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 10, 2006
CopyrightCopyright © HT Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
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 ...