COMPLETED
PROJECTS
Direct Seafood Marketing
A complied list of Frequently Asked Questions covering such topics as seafood sales, wild seafood certification, crawfish, and Parish requirements.
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Louisiana Coastal Hazard Mitigation Guidebook
The Louisiana
Coastal Hazard Mitigation Guidebook outlines strategies
to reduce, but not eliminate, the risks from coastal natural
hazards such as storm surge, other flooding, subsidence and
sea level rise, and approaches that are designed to serve as
an extra layer of protection or an additional line of defense
from those hazards. The guidebook also demonstrates how communities
can adopt a flexible approach to hazard planning and accommodate
a wide range of attitudes toward restrictions on the use of
property to mitigate hazards.
Completed
by James Wilkins, Rod
Emmer, Dennis Hwang, George Paul Kemp, Barrett Kennedy, Hassan
Mashriqui, Bruce Sharky
Download:
LaCoastalHazMitGuidebook.pdf
(24.3MB PDF)
The following
presentations complement the Louisiana Coastal Hazard Mitigation
Guidebook. Simply click the link below to view the full
list of presentions then click the presentation you would like
to view. Once the video begins you can fast forward or rewind
using the navigation buttons in the video window.
The
Rise and Disappearance of Southeast Louisiana by Dan Swenson
(7 minutes)
Hazard Mitigation and Land Use Planning in Coastal Louisiana:
Recommendations for the Future
This project
assesses the current state of land use planning authority and
practice, as it pertains to the ability of the state and local
governments to respond to their coastal crisis. In addition,
it provides coastal parish and state land use planners with
information on legal and policy tools that allow them to use
available powers to achieve public safety goals and to optimize
the effectiveness and value of coastal restoration projects.
Where sufficient powers are lacking, the project identifies
gaps and provides information to land use planners, allowing
them to promote land use planning as a necessary element in
addressing land loss issues. This project also provides lawmakers
with information on land use planning issues that will assist
them in enacting legislation necessary to respond to the requests
and needs of land use planners for greater powers with which
to address coastal land loss issues.
Completed
by Rod Emmer, James Wilkins,
Lisa Schiavinato,
Mark Davis (Tulane Law
School Center on Water Resources Law and Policy), and Mike
Wascom (School of the Coast and Environment, Department
of Environmental Studies)
Download:
CompPlanningReport.pdf
(435KB PDF)
Educational
Material Summarizing Federal Emergency Management Agency Programs
This project
produced four fact sheets to aid Louisiana Sea Grant Extension
Agents (SGEA), as they worked directly with communities and
victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. SGEAs are the trusted,
point-of-contact and source of information for many parish and
community administrators, elected officials and the general
public. To provide the services expected from them, to maintain
their credibility and to supply reliable information to their
network, SGEAs must first be introduced to applicable Federal
Emergency Management Association (FEMA) programs, gain an understanding
and working knowledge of these programs and then be able to
explain them to their constituents. This project provided the
training they needed and furnished them with the information
in a user-friendly format and at a non-technical level that
they can distribute. The fact sheets assisted in expediting
an understanding of FEMA programs that apply to recovery and
rebuilding in the Louisiana coastal zone and adjacent parishes.
Completed
by James Wilkins and Rod
Emmer (Louisiana Floodplain Management Association)
A
Review of Florida’s Shellfish Control Agencies’
Regulatory Framework and Its Application to Proposed Changes
to the Regulation of Louisiana’s Oyster Industry
The goals
of this project were to investigate the rationale, methodology,
benefits and detriments of agency change within states that
have changed or considered changing their shellfish control
authority to an agricultural jurisdiction, and to compare them
to the existing oyster industry regulatory framework in Louisiana.
The initial scope of this project was to develop research methods
and test them in Florida. It was hoped that, based on the fruits
of this research effort, that the Sea Grant Legal Program would
then survey all of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference’s
shellfish-producing member states.
Completed
by Lisa
Schiavinato
NOAA
Coastal Services Center Geo-Regulations Inventory
This project
was conducted in partnership with the NOAA
Coastal Services Center and Photo
Science Geospatial Solutions. The goal of this project was
to develop GIS datasets and visualization tools in support of
the center’s regional ocean observation initiatives. As
part of this effort, GIS layers were built that represent the
“footprint” of state-level coastal regulations throughout
the Gulf of Mexico. The Sea Grant Law & Policy Program assisted
in this project by providing an inventory and characterization
of Louisiana’s regulatory framework to understand how
many regulations are in place, to determine the feasibility
in mapping these regulations and to ascertain the value to the
coastal zone management community in spatially-enabling these
regulations.
Completed
by Lisa Schiavinato
Aquaculture
Parks in the Gulf of Mexico
This project
is a legal review and analysis of laws and regulations of Gulf
of Mexico states regarding aquaculture parks and the harvest
of shellfish to determine how these states may permit inshore
molluscan shellfish park in these states’ coastal zones.
The project also reviews these states’ policies regarding
aquaculture parks and shellfish production and harvest and identifies
gaps in the law that may be roadblocks to receiving permits
to operate an aquaculture park in the coastal zone of Gulf of
Mexico states.
Completed
by Lisa Schiavinato,
Stephanie Showalter (National Sea Grant Law Center), Vanessa
Maxwell (Louisiana Sea Grant College Program), and Granvil Treece
(Texas Sea Grant College Program)
Beneficial
Use of Dredged Material
This research
project was funded by the Governor’s Applied Coastal Research
and Development Program. The project provides a legal analysis
of how the Coastal Zone Management Act’s Federal Consistency
provision and current Louisiana law regarding beneficial use
of dredged material may be more effectively utilized for coastal
restoration purposes.
Completed
by Lisa Schiavinato
and James Wilkins
Taxes
and Wetlands Conservation in Louisiana: Voluntary Incentives
and Mandatory Alternatives
This paper
briefly reviews the history of wetlands conservation incentives
and provides an in-depth consideration of current legislation
and future considerations for this area of Louisiana Law.
Completed
by Ryan Seidemann
Download:
Jour_Environ_Law.pdf
(2.25MB PDF)
Marine
Protected Areas in the Gulf of Mexico: A Survey
A joint
project between the Louisiana and Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
Legal Programs, this book contains information about the various
coastal and ocean areas along the Gulf Coast that have received
heightened federal or state protection. For each MPA, the authors
have identified the managing agency, the authorizing legislation
and pertinent regulations. Brief site descriptions are also
included.
Completed
by Lisa Schiavinato
and Stephanie Showalter (National Sea Grant Law Center)
Download:
MPA.pdf
(22.47MB PDF)
Gulf
Oyster Industry Initiative: Recent Coastal Restoration and Oyster
Leaseholder Conflicts Have Lead to Changes in the Statutory
and Regulatory Landscape: What are the Changes and How Will
they Affect the Industry?
The research
question being addressed was: How will the recent changes in
Louisiana's laws and regulations, resulting from the Caernarvon
Project, affect current and future oyster leasing off of Louisiana's
coast? The goal of this project was to produce educational tools
that are easy to disseminate and user-friendly. Short fact sheets,
newsletter articles and longer journal publications were employed
as a way to educate oyster farmers affected by the recent litigation
as well as government agencies and other interest groups.
Completed
by James Wilkins and Lisa
Schiavinato
Center for
Natural Resources Economics & Policy (CNREP) presentation
— "History of Coastal Restoration and Oyster Conflicts"
Download: CNREP_oyster.pdf
(2.16MB PDF)
Local
Coastal Zone Management Programs
The Sea
Grant Legal Program was involved in the process of revising
existing and new local coastal zone management ordinances developed
by the coastal parishes. The Sea Grant Legal Program reviewed
the ordinances submitted by the coastal parishes to the Louisiana
Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) in order to ensure that
the current state requirements were met. The projects also included
the conducting of a national review of urban development ordinances
that addressed nonpoint sources of pollution and developing
a model ordinance to assist Louisiana's coastal parishes.
Completed
by Erinn Neyrey
Guide
to Louisiana's Oil Spill Law
The Sea
Grant Legal Program received a grant from the Louisiana Applied
Oil Spill Research and Development Program. The project titled
"A Legal Guide to Louisiana Oil Spill Prevention and Response
Act and Associated Programs," did not involve extensive
research and information compilation. The legal guidebook fulfills
an existing void and can be a resource tool for the agencies,
industry and private entities potentially involved in an oil
spill event. The final product reviews such areas as agency
jurisdiction, natural resource damage assessment, record-keeping
requirements, case law, statutory law and regulatory requirements.
Completed
by Erinn Neyrey
