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New storm mandate has an old ring to it  view story
Monday, November 21, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Congress told the Army Corps of Engineers this month to figure out how best to protect south Louisiana from hurricanes more powerful than Katrina and Rita and report back in May.
It was legislative deja vu. A similar request was made six years ago. But a time-consuming set of bureaucratic hurdles, shifting congressional priorities and inconsistent financing from Washington slowed progress on a hurricane protection study to a drip, drip, drip pace.
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