2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 49 — State administration
RS 49:214.6.8 — Coastal passes stabilization and restoration program

§214.6.8. Coastal passes stabilization and restoration program

A. The executive director of the Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration shall establish a coastal passes stabilization and restoration program. As part of the coastal passes stabilization and restoration program, the office shall require, when appropriate, that all coastal restoration or preservation projects subject to public bid include provisions for beneficial use of dredge material, rocks, or other hard materials to stabilize and restore coastal passes.

B. By September first each year, the governing authority of each parish which has coastal passes shall submit to the Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration a list of coastal passes stabilization and restoration projects requested for that parish. The Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration shall review the projects submitted and by November first of each year shall issue a list which prioritizes those requests.

C. The priority list shall be promulgated and shall be subject to legislative oversight by the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment and the Senate Committee on Natural Resources under the Administrative Procedure Act. Such oversight shall occur prior to March first each year.

D. Funding for the coastal passes stabilization and restoration projects shall be available from the Coastal Passes Stabilization and Restoration Fund. In the event funding from the Coastal Passes Stabilization and Restoration Fund is not appropriated in a given year, the Coastal Passes Stabilization and Restoration Program shall be suspended until funds are appropriated for the program.

E.(1) There is hereby created, as a special fund in the state treasury, the Coastal Passes Stabilization and Restoration Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "Coastal Passes fund". The source of monies in the fund shall be appropriations, donations, grants, and other monies which may become available for the purposes of the fund.

(2) The monies in the fund shall be subject to appropriation and may be used only as provided in Paragraph (E)(3) of this Section. The monies in the fund shall be invested by the treasurer in the same manner as monies in the state general fund, and interest earnings shall be deposited in and credited to the fund. All unexpended or unencumbered monies remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain to the credit of the fund.

(3) Monies appropriated from the fund shall be used exclusively by the Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration to support the Coastal Passes Stabilization and Restoration Program.

Acts 2009, No. 523, §3, eff. July 10, 2009.