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February 22, 2026
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Since the 1990s, the state has received federal money for coastal restoration projects under what is often called the Breaux Act, referring to former U.S. Sen. John Breaux, who pushed for the law alongside his then-colleague J. Bennett Johnston. Its official name is the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act, or CWPPRA (pronounced “cwipra”).
The law, funded by taxes on fishing equipment and boat fuel, has funded a long list of Louisiana projects since its inception. But evaluating those projects was problematic.
That’s where the CRMS idea emerged. As sketched out in a 2003 paper, the idea was to install a vast network of monitoring stations at randomized locations across coastal Louisiana.