WASHINGTON - Two Louisiana congressmen Wednesday urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to reconsider a spending bill that allocates $7.4 million in Restore Act funding to help the Treasury Department oversee distribution of the law's funds to the five Gulf states.
The Treasury Department had asked for the money so it can award and administer grants under the Restore Act, which allocates 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines from the 2010 BP oil spill for projects in Louisiana and the four other Gulf states.