WASHINGTON - A new House water resources bill contains many of the same provisions designed to accelerate Corps of Engineers projects in a bill passed by the Senate last May. But there are significant differences, including elimination of a major hurricane protection project for Louisiana.
The bill, released Wednesday by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, doesn't include authorization for the 98-mile-long, $10.3 billon Morganza to the Gulf hurricane levee system designed to project Houma and surrounding communities from storm surges.