BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced today that Louisiana has received a seventh "Marine Highway Grant" since 2016 – now totaling over $10,000,000 in investment. This Maritime Administration (MARAD) Grant, in coordination with the Port of Baton Rouge, will help to purchase 70 container chassis to help support the "marine highway" between Baton Rouge to… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) statement on Biden Administration's Political Allocation of Funding:"Nearly one-third of the authorized U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' water resources projects in the entire country are in the State of Louisiana. We drain two-thirds of the continental United States from the north and have lost nearly 2,000 square miles of our coast largely… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement about over $13,000,000 in improvements to 12.6 miles of LA 70 in Assumption Parish. The project is funded with 80 percent federal funding and will include milling, patching, overlay and drainage on LA 70 from the intersection of Highway 1 in Paincourtville, west and south to Pierre Part. "Highway 70… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement regarding the permitting legislation being pushed by President Joe Biden, Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin, and others. Modernizing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) would help fast-track Louisiana's coastal restoration projects, transportation projects and energy infrastructure priorities – stimulating… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves, a member of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, released the following statement after an additional $97,870,585 in federal funding was awarded to the State of Louisiana for transportation and infrastructure projects. These lagniappe funds can be used to address some of the worst traffic in America – the… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced $20 million to advance the Baton Rouge to New Orleans rail project. Specifically, the grant provides funding for real estate acquisition, design, and construction of the Baton Rouge and Gonzales Train Stations. "For the past two years, we've watched the U.S. Department of Transportation give away billions of dollars in… Read more »
LEEVILLE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement regarding the milestone groundbreaking for the elevation of LA-1 taking place today in Leeville, Louisiana. The new, elevated highway project, stretching from Golden Meadow to Leeville (8.3 miles), was partially financed in 2020 with a $135 million federal grant."Officially known as the ‘Billy… Read more »
GONZALES, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves joined the Highway 30 Coalition in Ascension Parish to discuss collaboration among elected, community and business leaders to prioritize substantial improvements to one of the most important high-traffic arteries in the fastest-growing parish of the state. In recent days three locations have been identified for a proposed new Mississippi… Read more »
With strong backing by U.S. Congressman Garret Graves, important hurdles were cleared today approving the construction of major flood control, ports, inland waterways, hurricane protection, coastal restoration and other infrastructure improvements in Louisiana. Graves was a co-author of the bipartisan water infrastructure legislation, the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA),… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) secured the approval of billions of dollars in new flood control, ports, inland waterways, hurricane protection, coastal restoration and other infrastructure improvements for Louisiana in the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA). WRDA will authorize water resources infrastructure projects and dictate how those investments are… Read more »
