HLS 19RS-3752 ORIGINAL
2019 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 307
BY REPRESENTATIVE LEGER
WATERWAYS/RIVERS: Memorializes congress to provide adequate funding to the
United States Army Corps of Engineers for the completion of deepening the
Mississippi River Ship Channel to fifty feet
1 A RESOLUTION
2To memorialize the Congress of the United States to provide adequate funding to the United
3 States Army Corps of Engineers for the completion of the proposed project to deepen
4 the Mississippi River Ship Channel to fifty feet.
5 WHEREAS, deepening of the Mississippi River Ship Channel to fifty feet is a
6historic infrastructure project that is vital to our nation's economic prosperity; and
7 WHEREAS, the expansion of the Panama Canal has made it imperative to improve
8access on the Mississippi River for larger Post-Panamax ships for export and import of
9goods; and
10 WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Louisiana
11desire deepening the Mississippi River Ship Channel to fifty feet; and
12 WHEREAS, the project is approved and awaiting federal funding; and
13 WHEREAS, thirty-one states will receive economic benefits by the enhanced water
14carrying capacity of the Mississippi River Ship Channel, also known as the gateway to
15America's Heartland; and
16 WHEREAS, the Mississippi River Ship Channel and tributaries currently account
17for seven hundred fifty billion dollars of the nation's economy and two million four hundred
18thousand jobs; and
19 WHEREAS, each new additional foot of water draft will account for an additional
20one million dollars in cargo on a vessel.
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HR NO. 307
1 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana memorializes
2the Congress of the United States to provide adequate funding to the United States Army
3Corps of Engineers for the completion of the proposed project to deepen the Mississippi
4River Ship Channel to fifty feet.
5 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be transmitted
6to the secretary of the United States Senate and the clerk of the United States House of
7Representatives, to each member of the Louisiana delegation to the United States Congress,
8the assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, the commander of the United States
9Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, and the governor.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HR 307 Original 2019 Regular Session Leger
Memorializes the U.S. Congress to provide adequate funding to the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers for the completion of the proposed project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship
Channel to 50 feet.
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