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("':) ~ C) C":. I:,.~' STATE OF LOUISIANA 5 Minute Activity Report 127th AWRBIAC Meeting Little Rock, Arkansas June 5 - 0, 1991 *-***** 1. PORT CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT PRIORITY PROGRAM the Port Construction and Development Priority Program was created by Act 452 of 1969. Even though this Act was signed into law on June 30, 1969. implementation hinged on passage of the transportation Trust Fund which was to provide a constitutionally protected funding source for the program. The Trust Fund was successfully passed by popular vote in October of 1969 and became effective in January of 1990. "Once it passed, OCTO began developing rules and regulations by which the program would be governed. Toward this objective DOTD worked with the LSD Ports and Waterways Institute, the Ports Association of Louisiana and the Governor's Transportation Infrastructure Evaluation Committee. Interim Rules and Regulations were developed and provided to Louisiana's ports. Based on these rules the ports developed and submitted twenty-four applications to OCTO for consideration and eighteen were recommended for funding. Six were for deep draft ports and twelve were for shallow draft ports. During the regular legislative session of 1990 the legislature appropriated $22.5 million to the Port Program. Of this amount, $7.5 million was derived in the second half of fiscal year 1989-1990 and $15 million ~aB derived from fiscal year 1990-1991. This total allocation was sufficient to allow for funding of all eighteen recommended projects. At the present time, several of these are under construction and the remainder are completing their pre-construction activities. In November of 1990 the ports submitted 25 applications for funding consideration in fiscal year 1991-1992. These are currently being reviewed. Once the projects are scored and ranked, a public hearing will be held and a recommended construction program will be presented to the legislature for adoption. 1