August 2010
June 2010
April 2010
February 2010
December 2009
October 2009
August 2009
June 2009
April 2009
Appendix D: Louisiana State and Parish CIAP Budget Sheets
Appendix F: Louisiana CIAP Plan Revisions
Original Louisiana CIAP Plan Authorized November 2007
The Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) was established by Section 384 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help producing states and their coastal political subdivisions to mitigate impacts from Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas production. The CIAP component is projected to provide up to $497 million to Louisiana for fiscal years 2007 through 2010. The 19 coastal parishes (CPSs) will receive 35 percent of those funds and the state will receive 65 percent.
Authorized uses of CIAP funds are: projects and activities to conserve, protect or restore coastal areas, including wetland; mitigation of damage to fish, wildlife or natural resources; planning assistance and the administrative costs of CIAP compliance; implementation of a federally approved marine, coastal or comprehensive conservation management plan; and mitigation of the impact of OCS activities by funding onshore infrastructure projects and public service needs. Up to 23 percent of those funds can be spent on CIAP planning assistance and compliance and for onshore infrastructure projects and public service needs to mitigate OCS impacts.
 Slurry pipelines like this one delivering sediment to the marshes
in the upper Barataria Basin are an important component in many
of the marsh rebuilding projects to be funded using CIAP money |
The state worked with the coastal parishes to prepare a draft Louisiana Coastal Impact Assistance Plan that identifies restoration, conservation and infrastructure projects to be supported by the state and each coastal parish for the four years of CIAP funding. The Plan also documents state and parish CIAP goals and objectives; the public process for nominating CIAP projects; the decision-making process for selecting CIAP projects; how the state and parishes will manage, implement and monitor CIAP projects; and how the state and parishes will comply with relevant federal, state and local laws in the implementation of those projects.
The Plan must be approved by the U.S. Minerals Management Service before Louisiana can receive CIAP funds. The restoration and conservation projects included in the plan embody principles of sustainable coastal restoration and protection. Some projects will be implemented with the state’s share of the CIAP funds, some will be constructed with the parishes’ share of those funds, and some will be jointly supported with state and parish CIAP funds.
The projects selected and supported by the state and the parishes to be funded with CIAP funds are consistent with those contained in the coastal master plan and will represent some of the first opportunities to advance that larger vision.
For a complete copy of the state’s draft CIAP plan, including the executive summary and a list of projects, please click on the following link: http://dnr.louisiana.gov/crm/ciap/ciap.asp
