BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Jindal administration is estimating that Louisiana will have to spend $336 million to buy land that the Army Corps of Engineers needs to build levees and floodgates on to protect the New Orleans area.
On Wednesday, Garret Graves, the chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, said the Jindal administration wants the Louisiana Legislature to use $200 million this year from the state surplus to buy land with.Graves said the state will need to buy $336 million in land by 2010.As part of the state's share of levee costs, the state has agreed to buy land sitting next to levees and floodgates the corps is working on.
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