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Regular Session, 2012 ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 41
BY SENATORS MORRISH AND MURRAY AND REPRESENTATIVES ARNOLD,
BADON, BILLIOT, WESLEY BISHOP, BROSSETT, BROWN, COX,
DOVE, GAROFALO, GISCLAIR, HARRISON, HENSGENS,
HOWARD, KATRINA JACKSON, KLECKLEY, LEGER, LIGI,
MILLER, ORTEGO, REYNOLDS, RICHARD, SCHEXNAYDER, ST.
GERMAIN, TALBOT AND WHITNEY
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To approve the annual integrated coastal protection plan for Fiscal Year 2012-2013, as
adopted by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
WHEREAS, R.S. 49:214.5.1 et seq., provides for the creation, duties, and
responsibilities of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (authority); and
WHEREAS, the powers and duties of the authority include the development of an
annual state integrated coastal protection plan for protecting, conserving, and restoring the
coastal area through the construction and management of integrated coastal restoration
projects and programs, including privately funded marsh management projects or plans, and
addressing those activities requiring coastal use permit which significantly affect such
projects; and
WHEREAS, as required under the provision of R.S. 49:214.5.3, the annual state
integrated coastal protection plan adopted by the authority must be submitted to the Senate
Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Natural Resources and
Environment and the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works and
the House Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works, on or before the
fifteenth day of the regular legislative session of each year; and
WHEREAS, such committees must take action on the annual state integrated coastal
protection plan, and the legislature may approve or disapprove the annual state integrated
coastal protection plan by resolution adopted by a majority vote of the members of each
house of the legislature; and SCR NO. 41 ENROLLED
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WHEREAS, the annual state integrated coastal protection plan shall not be effective
or implemented unless both houses of the legislature approve the annual plan, or fail to
disapprove the annual state integrated coastal protection plan by July 1, 2012; and
WHEREAS, the authority shall implement the annual state integrated coastal plan
if the legislature approves the plan or if the legislature fails to timely disapprove the plan.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
approve the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 annual plan for integrated coastal protection, as adopted
by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES