Louisiana taxpayers might not have to pay $1.3 billion in loan interest for New Orleans levee system
House passes water resources development act By Kimberly Curth | December 21, 2020 at 5:03 PM CST - Updated December 21 at 10:22 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -After weeks of negotiations, Congress is set to vote on a Coronavirus relief package Monday, but lawmakers will also vote on an attached measure to the overall funding bill that could impact future coastal restoration and flood protection in the New Orleans area. It’s part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020, known as WRDA.
“Who’s going to be helped by this deal; Louisiana taxpayers immediately. I don’t know where the Louisiana legislature was going to find this money, this $1.3 billion, but I have a pretty good idea it was out of people’s pockets and so we saved $1.3 billion and that’s a good thing anytime,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana.
Pipeline safety legislation inspired by Lawrence gas disaster is part of federal spending package
By Martin Finucane Globe Staff,Updated December 22, 2020, 2:10 p.m.
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Fire investigators paused several days after the 2018 disaster while searching through debris at a home that exploded in Lawrence.Charles Krupa/Associated Press
Pipeline safety legislation introduced in response to the 2018 natural gas explosions and fires in the Lawrence area is included in the year-end spending package passed by Congress and awaiting the presidentâs signature, lawmakers said Tuesday.
The legislation is named after Leonel Rondon, the young man from Lawrence who died in the September 2018 disaster.
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President Donald Trump is expected to sign on Tuesday a massive relief and federal spending package passed by Congress late Monday that authorizes major port expansion projects and opens $1 billion in funds for harbor maintenance dredging.
The port funding legislation, the biennial Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), was part of a $1.4 trillion fiscal year 2021 appropriations omnibus bill that also contains $900 billion in emergency COVID-19 relief and program funding for the U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies.
WRDA formally authorized the expansion of the Houston Ship Channel, known as Project 11, an $885 billion project that will allow for two-way traffic of next-generation-size containerships.
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