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Key Louisiana coastal project facing five-year wait for federal permits
March 16, 2017
Contact: coastal@la.gov
An official with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told a standing-room-only crowd at the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority board meeting in New Orleans today that it will likely be 2022 before the federal agency decides whether to issue permits to allow the Mid Barataria Sediment Diversion project to go forward.