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2025 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 36
BY REPRESENTATIVE GEYMANN
COASTAL RESOURCES: Approves the annual state integrated coastal protection plan for
Fiscal Year 2026, as adopted by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Board
1 A RESOLUTION
2To approve the annual state integrated coastal protection plan for Fiscal Year 2026, as
3 adopted by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board.
4 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:214.5.1 et seq. creates the Coastal Protection and Restoration
5Authority Board (board) to represent the state's position in policy relative to the protection,
6conservation, enhancement, and restoration of the coastal area of the state through oversight
7of integrated coastal protection projects and programs; and
8 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:214.5.1 et seq. provides that the board shall develop, coordinate,
9make reports on, and provide oversight for the annual state integrated coastal protection
10plan; and
11 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:214.6.1 et seq. provides for the creation, duties, and
12responsibilities of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (authority) as the
13implementation and enforcement arm of the board and that through its offices and officers,
14the authority shall be responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the annual state
15integrated coastal protection plan; and
16 WHEREAS, the annual state integrated coastal protection plan represents a state
17policy for protecting, conserving, enhancing, and restoring Louisiana's coastal area through
18the construction and management of integrated coastal protection projects and programs,
19including coastal protection and restoration projects and hurricane protection projects, which
20are projects that may require, without limitation, funding for associated measures such as the
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1beneficial use of dredged material, rehabilitation and repair of state restoration projects,
2environmental and regulatory compliance, acquisition of land easements, rights-of-way,
3relocations and disposal areas, maintenance programs, conservation and restoration
4partnerships, reserve fund contingencies, and other innovative programs, provided that such
5funding for associated measures shall be allocated to the projects based on priority status as
6identified by the annual state integrated coastal protection plan in order to more effectively
7respond to the ever-changing coastal crisis; and
8 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:214.8.1 et seq. requires that the annual state integrated coastal
9protection plan provided for in R.S. 49:214.2 include the annual basin plan for the
10Atchafalaya Basin and such annual basin plan is included as Appendix D to the annual state
11integrated coastal protection plan; and
12 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:214.5.3 requires that, as part of the development of the annual
13state integrated coastal protection plan, the board shall conduct not less than three public
14hearings in separate locations in the western, central, and eastern areas of the coastal area
15for the purpose of receiving comments and recommendations from the public and elected
16officials; and
17 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:214.5.3 also requires that at least two weeks prior to each public
18hearing, the board shall contact the parish governing authorities, regional flood protection
19authorities, levee districts, and the state legislators of the parishes in the coastal areas for the
20purpose of soliciting their comments and recommendations and notifying them of the public
21hearing to be held in their area; and
22 WHEREAS, R.S. 49:214.5.3 requires the board to receive written comments and
23recommendations until thirty days prior to the submission of the annual state integrated
24coastal protection plan to the legislative committees; and
25 WHEREAS, as required under the provisions of R.S. 49:214.5.3, the annual state
26integrated coastal protection plan adopted by the board shall be submitted to the House
27Committee on Natural Resources and Environment, the Senate Committee on Natural
28Resources, the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works, and the
29Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works, on or before the
30fifteenth day of the regular legislative session of each year; and
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1 WHEREAS, these committees shall provide guidance for and approval of the annual
2state integrated coastal protection plan; and
3 WHEREAS, the annual state integrated coastal protection plan shall become
4effective and implemented upon approval of the annual state integrated coastal protection
5plan by a majority of both houses of the legislature, or if a majority of both houses of the
6legislature fails to disapprove the annual state integrated coastal protection plan by July 1,
72025, it shall become immediately effective and implemented.
8 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
9Legislature of Louisiana does hereby approve the state's Fiscal Year 2026 annual plan for
10integrated coastal protection, as adopted by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
11Board.
12 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
13chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board.
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 36 Original 2025 Regular Session Geymann
Approves the annual state integrated coastal protection plan for FY 2026, as adopted by the
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board.
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