LIVINGSTON, LA (AP) — Livingston Parish officials hope to use more than half a million dollars in coastal restoration funds to clean out a number of waterways, repair a public boat launch and buy two sandbagging machines.
The Advocate’s Heidi R. Kinchen reports the money flows from a portion of Clean Water Act penalties against BP stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Those penalties go through the five funding mechanisms of the RESTORE Act, a 2012 federal law that directs the money to the five Gulf States affected by the oil spill.
Officials say Livingston Parish is in line to receive $561,895 of that funding, which can be used for flood protection, restoration of natural resources and infrastructure projects benefiting the economy or ecological resources.
