Requests DOTD and DEQ to collaborate with designated entities to conduct an environmental review on quantifiable public health, safety, and welfare impacts associated with any new railroad alignment in the city of Gretna.
Requests DOTD and DEQ to collaborate with the Union Pacific Railroad and designated federal agencies to conduct a thorough environmental review on quantifiable public health, safety, and welfare impacts associated with any new railroad alignment in the city of Gretna.
Requests the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to collaborate with Rio Grande Pacific Railroad and certain federal agencies to conduct an environmental review on the quantifiable public health, safety, and welfare impact of new railroad alignment in the city of Gretna
Expresses support for the relocation of the existing railroad lines in Plaquemines and Jefferson Parishes of the New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway Company and the Union Pacific Railroad in order to improve the public safety of citizens, reduce vehicular and rail interfaces, improve air quality and mitigate congestion, and enhance economic development in those parishes.
Urges and requests the House Committee on Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs to study the effects that the railroads have on broadband deployment
Relating to the creation of and the powers of a comprehensive multimodal urban transportation authority, including the power to impose taxes, issue bonds, and exercise limited eminent domain authority.