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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 131
BY SENATOR CHABERT AND REPRESENTATIVE LEGER
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To memorialize the Congress of the United States 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.
WHEREAS, deepening of the Mississippi River Ship Channel to fifty feet is a
historic infrastructure project that is vital to our nation's economic prosperity; and
WHEREAS, the expansion of the Panama Canal has made it imperative to improve
access on the Mississippi River for larger Post-Panamax ships for export and import of
goods; and
WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Louisiana
desire deepening the Mississippi River Ship Channel to fifty feet; and
WHEREAS, the project is approved and awaiting federal funding; and
WHEREAS, thirty-one states will receive economic benefits by the enhanced water
carrying capacity of the Mississippi River Ship Channel, also known as the gateway to
America's Heartland; and
WHEREAS, the Mississippi River Ship Channel and tributaries currently account
for seven hundred fifty billion dollars of the nation's economy and two million four hundred
thousand jobs; and
WHEREAS, each new additional foot of water draft will account for an additional
one million dollars in cargo on a vessel.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana memorializes
the Congress of the United States 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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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be transmitted
to the secretary of the United States Senate and the clerk of the United States House of
Representatives, to each member of the Louisiana delegation to the United States Congress,
the assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, the commander of the United States
Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District, and the governor.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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