Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (FL-26) and U.S. Rep. Garret Graves (LA-06), members of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, introduced the Coast Guard Shore Infrastructure Improvement Act, legislation to help reduce and better manage the serious maintenance backlog for Coast Guard shore infrastructure. A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found… Read more »
While several state lawmakers lobby the Legislature for infrastructure funding to build a new Mississippi River bridge, among other transportation projects, efforts are also underway on the federal level that U.S. Rep. Garret Graves hopes will help support a new bridge. Much of the national focus has been on talk of a massive $2 trillion federal infrastructure plan, which basically fell… Read more »
Livingston Parish is a coastal community, the southern portion at least. Coastal erosion has allowed salt water to creep into Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas, eventually feeding into the bayous and rivers in southern Livingston. That has opened the doors for funding streams to help with drainage work throughout the parish, and nearly 700 miles of waterways, an important project in… Read more »
Click here to watch videoBaton Rouge, La (Local33)(Fox44) - The Baton Rouge Metro Airport has been awarded a $15 million dollar grant for airport improvements by the Federal Aviation Administration. Congressman Garret Graves announced the nearly $50 million total project received partial funding through the FAA's airport improvement program. Majority of the money will go towards shifting… Read more »
DENHAM SPRINGS – A resolution to delayed flood recovery funds held up by federal bureaucrats could be in place by this weekend and the funds could be going out to families by the end of the month. That was the assessment by U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, during a visit Monday to Seventh Ward Elementary in Denham Springs. The congressman ate lunch with a group of… Read more »
Baton Rouge Metro Airport has been awarded a $15 million Federal Aviation Administration grant that will be used to relocate a portion of Plank Road in order to better utilize an airport runway.U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, announced that the nearly $50 million total project received partial funding through the FAA's Airport Improvement Program. He called the grant, the… Read more »
Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) announced today that the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR) will be awarded a $15 million federal grant through the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) – the second largest AIP grant awarded nationwide."This is a big win for travelers in the Capital Region, for BTR and for South Louisiana," said… Read more »
Louisiana will get $94.7 million in fiscal year 2018 Gulf of Mexico offshore oil revenue, almost $12 million more than the previous year, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday (April 25).The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority will get $75.8 million of the money, which can be used for flood protection and coastal restoration projects. The state's 19 coastal… Read more »
After decades on the back burner, the Comite River Diversion Canal finally began construction Wednesday morning.Planned after the devastating flood of 1983, the channel would redirect high water from the Comite and several bayous in northern East Baton Rouge Parish into the Mississippi River during an emergency.Following the historic flood of 2016, fresh calls for funding finally resulted… Read more »
