Will $1.5 Billion in Restoration Funds Make it to the Gulf Coast? Watchdogs Say Yes

摘要

Coastal advocates and the federal government are keeping a wary watch on spending as RESTORE Act money flows into Louisiana-this according to an article published in The Lens on 23 August 2016 and reprinted in a shorter form here with permission. Bob Marshall writes: As Louisiana coastal advocates lobbied Congress to have shares of BP fines and offshore mineral royalties dedicated to state's coastal-preservation effort, they knew they had to play a balancing act with coastal parishes. They would have to cut local governments in on the windfall to get their support. But they also wanted to make sure the tens of millions of dollars they were sending to coastal parishes facing tough economic times would go to the coast, not other projects. Ideally, the work would fit with the state's Coastal Master Plan, its 50-year blueprint to save the sinking, crumbling coastal zone.