NLLD Board President Cory Kief
and
Executive Director Dwayne Bourgeois
attended the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in early March along with other representatives of the
Morganza Action Coalition (MAC).
The group visited with
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' representatives
and also had meetings with
key Congressional members
on a variety of issues important to North Lafourche residents including the
National Flood Insurance Program
, reauthorization of the
Water Resources Development Act
(WRDA), and
Regulatory Reforms.
NLLD met with Louisiana Congressional members including Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy, Congressmen Steve Scalise, Garret Graves, Ralph Abraham, and Clay Higgins, as well as staff of the Senate Banking Committee, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senate Commerce Committee, and leadership at the U.S. Department of Interior.
"The NLLD and MAC continue to lead the fight for changes to the National Flood Insurance Program that will protect our homeowners here from unsustainable rate hikes and shore up the program so it is there for us when we need it," Bourgeois said.
"We are also working with our federal delegation to include our area's flood protection projects in the next WRDA bill and resolve regulatory issues that could impact our ability to protect ourselves. Our meetings this month on these topics were all very productive," he said.
