SLS 20RS-203 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 2
BY SENATOR LAMBERT
COASTAL PROTECT/RES AUTH. Requests Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
and Dept. of Natural Resources to study the feasibility of using waste tire material in flood
protection and coastal restoration projects.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To urge and request the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Department
3 of Natural Resources to study the feasibility of using waste tire material in flood
4 protection and coastal restoration projects.
5 WHEREAS, waste tire material is abundant and potentially useful in flood protection
6 and coastal restoration projects; and
7 WHEREAS, waste tire material scraps have been utilized as floating coastal
8 breakwaters and in other coastal defense functions to reduce erosion and protect coastal
9 roads and structures from damage; and
10 WHEREAS, shredded waste tires have been used in constructing road embankments
11 and as below-grade fill, as material reducing vibrations for railway lines, and ground-up
12 waste tire material has also been used as road material and construction material when
13 properly mixed with asphalt or concrete; and
14 WHEREAS, waste tires and shredded waste tire material have been utilized as
15 artificial reef material for promoting fisheries, as dock bumpers, sidewalk material, roadway
16 embankments, and highway crash bumpers; and
17 WHEREAS, the potential use of waste tire and shredded waste tire material in coastal
18 restoration and other coastal projects should be studied to determine the practical and
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1 economic feasibility of the use of such materials pursuant to sound engineering and
2 environmental practices.
3 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
4 urge and request the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Department of
5 Natural Resources to study the feasibility of using waste tire material in flood protection and
6 coastal restoration projects.
7 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
8 executive director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and to the secretary
9 of the Department of Natural Resources.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry G. Jones.
DIGEST
SCR 2 Original 2020 Regular Session Lambert
Urges and requests the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and Dept. of Natural
Resources to study the feasibility of using waste tire material in flood protection and coastal
restoration projects.
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