Feds OK funding for Morganza to Gulf work

The Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project will receive New Start Construction funding with approval by the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.
Morganza to the Gulf had been initially authorized in 2007, but had never received any Corps construction funding. After the president signed the funding bill into law last month, Kennedy worked with the Trump administration to ensure that the Morganza to the Gulf Project would receive New Start Funding.
The Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project is set to be one of seven new construction projects that the Army Corps of Engineers is directed to initiate.
Once constructed, the Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project will protect a region in southeast Louisiana that has some of the most important oil and gas, marine transportation and seafood support infrastructure on the Gulf Coast.
Southeastern Louisiana began taxing itself in 1992 for the dedicated purpose of hurricane protection and has already invested about $500 million to construct elements of the Morganza to the Gulf Project.