CIAP,Surplus, and non-constructed CWPPRA

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Coastal Restoration Updates September 10, 2007

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
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CIAP Current Timeline

• Governor submitted Plan to DOI Secretary and
  Minerals Management Service (MMS)
• June 1, 2007
• State began implementing several restoration
  projects included in Plan, using State funds
• June 2007
• MMS determined Plan to be complete initiated
  approval review
• July 30, 2007
• MMS approval of Plan anticipated State begins
  submitting CIAP grant applications to MMS
• Late October 2007

• Involve CPRA Interagency Planning Team and Corps
  of Engineers in screening of CIAP proposals

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State Early Action Projects

• ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
• Violet Diversion
• Freshwater Bayou Bank Stabilization
• Mississippi River Sediment Delivery Pipeline
• Bayou Lamoque Diversion
• Orleans Land Bridge Shoreline Protection
• Blind River Freshwater Siphon
• CONSTRUCTION
• East Grand Terre Island
• Barataria Land Bridge Dedicated Dredging
• Grand Lake Shoreline Protection
• Beneficial Use of Dredged Material
• GIWW Bank Restoration -Terrebonne Parish
• Rockefeller Shoreline Demo
• Lake Salvador, Phase III
• Coastal Forest Conservation Initiative
  (Acquisition)

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Surplus-Funded Restoration Projects

• Biloxi Marsh (22M)
• Caminada Headlands OR HNC Complex (40M)
• Marsh Creation near Freshwater Bayou (4M)
• Cameron Parish Shoreline (31M)
• Beneficial Use Calcasieu Ship Channel (5M)
• Pipeline Conveyance in Plaquemines Parish (22M)

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State Restoration Projects

• 44 projects completed 49.71M
• Dedicated Dredging Program 2 currently under
  construction, Grand Bayou Blue (1.8M) and the
  Point Au Fer (2.5M) project
• Mississippi River Reintroduction Into Bayou
  Lafourche (BA-25b) currently in design (184M)
• Barrier Island Maintenance Program (BIMP)
  Engineering and design has been initiated on the
  first project funded through BIMP, the Bay
  Champagne Marsh Creation project (3.5M)

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CWPPRA Projects

• 143 active projects since 1991
• 74 projects completed 625M 71,000 ac
  protected/restored 391,000 total acres benefited
• 14 projects under construction, 7 designed, 48 in
  ED
• 7 projects (183M) ready to construct but
  unfunded
• 1991-2019 LA CWPPRA Funding 2.4B

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Oyster lease Acquisition and Compensation Program

• Leases Acquired
• Bush Canal Bank Stabilization and Seabreeze
  Embankment Reconstruction Project Terrebonne
  Parish Consolidated Government (CIAP)
• Shoreline Protection in Lake Borgne at Shell
  Beach and Bayou Dupre Project (PO-30) (CWPPRA)
• Pending Leases Acquisition
• North Lake Mechant Landbridge Restoration Project
  (TE-44) (CWPPRA)
• Pass Chaland to Grand Bayou Pass Barrier
  Shoreline Protection Project (BA-35) (CWPPRA)
• Barataria Barrier Island Complex Project Pelican
  Island and Pass Chaland to Pass La Mer Barrier
  Island Restoration project (BA-38) (CWPPRA)
• Biological Survey Conducted
• Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project
  Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District (Other
  Agency Request)
• Total Surveyed Acreage 27,633.4
• Number of Leases Acquired 9
• Pending Lease Acquisitions 49

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Beneficial Use of Dredged Material

• Large opportunity along Corps-maintained channels
• State contributed 1.4M for Wine Island
  restoration near HNC
• CIAP (20M), State surplus funds (5M) and LCA
  funds (100M) to be available
• State, Port of Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish,
  
  
  Corps, and landowner working to restore
  marsh near Calcasieu Ship Channel using CIAP and
  State surplus funds

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SCIENCE

• LCA ST Program
• Support the science and technology necessary to
  effectively address coastal ecosystem restoration
  needs and provide analytical tools, programmatic
  and project-specific reviews, and recommendations
  for studies to investigate scientific and
  technological uncertainties
• FY 06 7M FY 07 5M
• Coastwide Reference Monitoring System- Wetlands
  (CRMS-Wetlands)
• To date, 371 sites have been visited and
  characterized and approximately 176 sites are
  fully operational and collecting all data
  parameters
• 20.3M in funding authorized through FY 2010
• Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM)
• Completed Coastal post-storm assessment video and
  photography
• Complete Coast-wide Shoreline Erosion Rates for
  Historic, Long-term, Short-term, and Near-term
  Time Periods (1880s, 1920s, 1980s, 2004, 2005)
• Completed Bathymetric Surveys for sandy
  shorelines (Sabine to Mermentau, Raccoon Island
  to Sandy Point, and Chandeleur Islands)
• Completed LiDAR Surveys for sandy shorelines
• 0.5M yearly

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Coastal Use Permit Streamlining
Processing time for all permits reduced by 51
(59.9 days to 30.6 days) between 2002 and 2006.