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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 105
BY SENATOR THOMPSON
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the Department of Transportation and Development to study solutions
to the build-up of sediment around Louisiana ports and to consult with the
Department of Agriculture and Forestry relative to the issues farmers face to
transport agricultural crops to market.
WHEREAS, Louisiana has many ports along the Mississippi River; and
WHEREAS, as the Mississippi River flows through Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico,
it deposits sediment; and
WHEREAS, the deposit of sediment at entrances to Louisiana ports on the
Mississippi River hampers access to the ports and impacts farmers who use the ports to
transport agricultural crops to market; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Agriculture and Forestry has information and
knowledge about the issues farmers face to transport agricultural crops to market; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Agriculture and Forestry may provide information
that is beneficial to finding solutions to the build-up of sediment around Louisiana port
entrances.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request the Department of Transportation and Development to study
solutions to the build-up of sediment around Louisiana ports and to consult with the
Department of Agriculture and Forestry relative to the issues farmers face to transport
agricultural crops to market and to provide a written report of solutions to the build-up of
sediment around Louisiana ports to the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and
Public Works and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural
Development not later than April 1, 2015. SR NO. 105 ENROLLED
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development and to the commissioner
of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE