U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced that the State of Louisiana and several specific Louisiana parishes will receive $156,161,552.64 in the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) energy revenues which are awarded to the four Gulf offshore oil and gas-producing states. Graves drafted and negotiated the law. Louisiana invests the revenues from energy lease sales directly… Read more »
U.S. Congressmen Garret Graves and Salud Carbajal have introduced bipartisan legislation to bring traffic management and planning into the 21st Century. H.R. 1500, the Intelligent Transportation Integration Act, will create a federal program to leverage existing data to actively manage traffic flow today and plan more efficient roadways for tomorrow.
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U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced the following key Louisiana projects received funding that will address our dredging, levee, flood protection and infrastructure priorities. The work plan is the regular release of how the Army Corps will be funding its projects after the passage of the annual congressional spending bill. Major investments Graves successfully pushed for during the… Read more »
The U.S. House Natural Resources and Transportation and Infrastructure committees will begin discussions tomorrow on permitting reform. At 2:00 PM EST tomorrow, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the Building U.S. Infrastructure through Limited Delays & Efficient Reviews (BUILDER) Act. A link to watch can be found HERE."Government bureaucracy is… Read more »
U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the following statement regarding the Humble Canal Floodgate Groundbreaking Ceremony today, a critical component of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf Hurricane Protection System. Graves has secured $410 million for the project to date, including $12.46 million specifically for the Humble Canal Floodgate."Today should confirm for thousands of families and… Read more »
Legislation expected to imminently pass the U.S. House of Representatives and be signed into law includes numerous wins for Louisiana. This bill - the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA) - will deliver better flood control, coastal restoration and hurricane protection, as well as direct investments in our ports and waterways.
Graves included numerous pro-Louisiana provisions… Read more »
DONALDSONVILLE, LA – Federal, state and local leaders broke ground on the Bayou Lafourche Mississippi River Re-Introduction and Pumping Capacity Improvement Project in Donaldsonville on Friday. The project went out to bid for construction in January 2022 after receiving the final U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) permit in November 2021.U.S. Congressman Garret Graves released the… Read more »
BATON ROUGE, LA – U.S. Congressman Garret Graves announced today $18,857,854.96 in federal funding from FEMA for the Terrebonne Parish School Board's remediation costs. This reimbursement covers 100 percent of the costs to clean out, dehumidify, conduct mold remediation, purchase generators, and other efforts to get Terrebonne Parish schools back online after Hurricane Ida.### Read more »
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 »
