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2019 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 131
BY SENATOR CHABERT AND REPRESENTATIVE LEGER
WATER/WATERWAYS. 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 CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To 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
6 historic 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
8 access on the Mississippi River for larger Post-Panamax ships for export and import of
9 goods; and
10 WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Louisiana
11 desire 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
14 carrying capacity of the Mississippi River Ship Channel, also known as the gateway to
15 America's Heartland; and
16 WHEREAS, the Mississippi River Ship Channel and tributaries currently account
17 for seven hundred fifty billion dollars of the nation's economy and two million four hundred
18 thousand jobs; and
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1 WHEREAS, each new additional foot of water draft will account for an additional
2 one million dollars in cargo on a vessel.
3 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana memorializes
4 the Congress of the United States to provide adequate funding to the United States Army
5 Corps of Engineers for the completion of the proposed project to deepen the Mississippi
6 River Ship Channel to fifty feet.
7 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be transmitted
8 to the secretary of the United States Senate and the clerk of the United States House of
9 Representatives, to each member of the Louisiana delegation to the United States Congress,
10 the assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, the commander of the United States
11 Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District, and the governor.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
SCR 131 Original 2019 Regular Session Chabert
Memorializes Congress to provide adequate funding to the United States Army Corps of
Engineers for the completion of the proposed project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship
Channel to fifty feet.
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