Louisiana To Receive $1.2B In Federal Flood-Control Funds

 

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is set to receive $1.2 billion in grant funding from the federal government for flood-control and prevention projects.

Gov. John Bel Edwards and U.S. Rep. Garret Graves announced the funding Thursday.

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The Advocate reports that it is unclear which projects are due to receive the funds. In a statement, Edwards said state officials have not yet received full details from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Edwards says the money will play a crucial role as the state continues to recover from deadly floods that devastated parts of southern Louisiana in 2016.

Graves, a Baton Rouge Republican, told the newspaper the funding provides Louisiana considerable flexibility to decide which projects to invest in.

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The money is part of a roughly $90 billion disaster-recovery package Congress passed in February.

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