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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4748 
To require the Secretary of the Army to submit to Congress a report identi-
fying activities for hurricane and flood protection in Lake Pontchartrain, 
Louisiana, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 14, 2006 
Mr. JINDAL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of the Army to submit to Congress 
a report identifying activities for hurricane and flood 
protection in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Louisiana Emergency 
Needs Corps of Engineers Authorization Act of 2006’’.
SEC. 2. HURRICANE AND FLOOD PROTECTION, LAKE PONT-
CHARTRAIN, LOUISIANA. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 20 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army, act-
ing through the Chief of Engineers (referred to in this 
Act as the ‘‘Secretary’’), shall submit to the Committee 
on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives a report that— 
(1) with respect to the project for hurricane- 
flood protection on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, 
authorized by section 204 of the Flood Control Act 
of 1965 (79 Stat. 1077), identifies activities to re-
construct hurricane and flood protection measures 
relating to the outfall canals adjacent to Lake Pont-
chartrain in the Jefferson and Orleans parishes of 
the State of Louisiana that are substantially in ac-
cordance with levels of hurricane and flood protec-
tion authorized under Federal law and that are ac-
tivities to— 
(A) reconstruct and fortify floodwalls adja-
cent to the canals; 
(B) construct at the heads of the canals 
pumping stations with adequate pumping ca-
pacity, as determined by the Secretary;
(C) install gate-like structures at the heads 
of the canals; and 
(D) prevent— 
(i) seepage from the canals into adja-
cent property; and 
(ii) the undermining of floodwalls im-
proved or reconstructed under subpara-
graph (A); 
(2) identifies activities to protect, restore, and 
reduce the risk of storm damage in coastal areas of 
the State of Louisiana in which a major disaster re-
lating to Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita was 
declared by the President to exist on or after August 
29, 2005, in accordance with section 401 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170), in accordance with 
the report transmitted by the President to the 
House of Representatives and dated October 28, 
2005; 
(3) identifies activities to fortify, strengthen, 
and improve hurricane protection and flood control 
infrastructure (including pumping stations) in exist-
ence on or before August 28, 2005, to ensure sus-
tainability and prevent the failure of the infrastruc-
ture under hurricane conditions, in accordance with
predicted area conditions for standard project hurri-
canes and located in an area designed to be pro-
tected by a hurricane or flood control project author-
ized under Federal law; and 
(4) identifies any activity included in the report 
of the Chief of Engineers dated August 23, 2002 
(including supplemental reports), that the Secretary 
determines to be integral to the protection of life 
and property in the disaster area described in para-
graph (2). 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Absent a resolution of Con-
gress disapproving an activity identified in the re-
port under subsection (a), the Secretary may imple-
ment the activity beginning on the date that is 30 
days after the date on which the report is submitted. 
(2) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of 
the cost of an activity carried out under paragraph 
(1) shall be 100 percent. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for 
each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010— 
(1) $1,400,000,000 to carry out activities iden-
tified under paragraphs (1) through (3) of sub-
section (a); and
(2) $788,000,000 to carry out activities identi-
fied under subsection (a)(4). 
SEC. 3. COMPENSATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, in acquiring property or an interest in prop-
erty to improve, reconstruct, or develop hurricane and 
flood protection measures relating to Hurricane Katrina 
or Rita, the Secretary shall compensate the owner of the 
property or interest without taking into consideration any 
damage to the property or interest caused by Hurricane 
Katrina or Rita. 
(b) ADJUSTMENT FOR PAYMENTS MADE.—Notwith-
standing subsection (a), the Secretary may reduce the 
amount of compensation paid under subsection (a) for 
property or an interest in property by the amount of any 
other payment received by the owner of the property or 
interest for damages to that property or interest as a re-
sult of Hurricane Katrina or Rita, including a payment 
received from— 
(1) an insurance claim; or 
(2) the Federal Emergency Management Agen-
cy.
SEC. 4. EFFECT OF ACT. 
Nothing in this Act affects any authority of the Sec-
retary under any other Federal law. 
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