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Lafourche Parish CIAP Plan Implementation Program
A. Lafourche Parish goals and objectives under the CIAP
CIAP can provide Lafourche Parish with enough funding to attempt projects that
can aggressively tackle the parish’s extreme land loss. Lafourche Parish plans to
maintain the structure of its estuaries, including the barrier beaches, natural
ridges, and land bridges, and to use funding for infrastructure that is directly
affected or supportive of offshore oil development. Those projects include the
Larose to Golden Meadow Hurricane Protection Project, LA 1 Project, and Port
Fourchon.
B. How Lafourche Parish will manage, implement, and monitor the CIAP
CIAP projects will be managed and monitored primarily through the Lafourche
Parish Coastal Zone Office and Advisory Committee and the parish finance
department, with the assistance of field personnel from LDNR. Overall CIAP
program management, implementation and monitoring for the Lafourche CIAP
program will be the responsibility of the Lafourche Parish CZM Administrator
and Permits Officer. In addition to support from Lafourche Parish departments,
the CIAP program coordinator for Lafourche Parish may be supported on project
specific duties by consultants who will be responsible for the management or
supervision of individual projects.
Since one of the Lafourche Parish CIAP projects is being implemented in
conjunction with the state, the Lafourche Parish and the State of Louisiana will
enter into a cooperative agreement which will set forth the terms of work on the
CIAP project, identify the deliverables anticipated for the project and the time
frame for implementation of the project. The activities and timeline described in
the agreement will be used to measure the progress of the project over time.
Implementation of individual CIAP projects will follow the priority schedule
reflected in the funding for individual projects in the program allocation budget
sheets for Lafourche Parish listed in Appendix D of this plan. A detailed
implementation schedule for the Lafourche Parish CIAP projects will be
submitted in conjunction with the grants for each project and will be updated once
the grants have been executed and project work initiated.
The CIAP point of contact for Lafourche Parish, or his agent, will be responsible
for conducting periodic site visits to all projects, will monitor progress through
annual reports and financial reports, and will be responsible for the performance
of other monitoring analysis. The CIAP point of contact for Lafourche Parish, in
collaboration with the LDNR CIAP Program Manager, will conduct an annual
review of CIAP funding and project implementation priorities and will adjust the
implementation schedule and revise the CIAP Plan to best achieve Lafourche
Parish CIAP program goals and objectives. The CIAP Program Managers for
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