This report discusses federal evacuation policy and analyzes potential lessons learned from the evacuation of individuals from Hurricane Katrina. Several issue areas that might arise concerning potential lawmaking and oversight on evacuation policy are also highlighted. This report will be updated as significant legislative or administrative changes occur.

This report discusses the issues with the housing policies of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), particularly as they relate to the Post-Katrina Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-295) and the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Plan (P.L. 93-288). It includes an overview of the Stafford Act sections 403 and 408 as well as a breakdown of issues for Congress and possible Congressional approaches to address the policies.

This report examines selected issues of the federal government's liability depending on the theory of the levee failures in New Orleans, and analyzes legal defense available to the federal government.

This report introduces the program and more extensive restoration options that are being discussed in the wake of the hurricanes.

Annual report for the Sabine River Compact Administration for 2007, including a summary of the meetings and work of the administration, reports from the hydrologic stations, fiscal revenues and expenditures, and accompanying notes.

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This final report summarizes the procedures and the results of the mapping efforts of a project on continental shelves.

This report discusses the following: Medicaid’s rules on eligibility, benefits, and financing in the context of current questions and issues raised by Hurricane Katrina. Recent state actions in response to Medicaid issues raised by the hurricane. Federal Medicaid waiver authority, including information on current activity in this area and the New York Disaster Relief Medicaid waiver granted in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Current federal legislation related to Medicaid and Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

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This report focuses on four immigration policy implications of Hurricane Katrina

To help inform discussions on the federal role in dam safety, this report provides background information on the nation’s dam safety activities and funding mechanisms.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused widespread damage and destruction to wetlands along the central Gulf Coast. Prior to these hurricanes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had been seeking approval from the 109th Congress for a $1.1 billion multiyear program to construct five projects that would help to restore portions of the coastal Louisiana ecosystem by slowing the rate of wetland loss and restoring some wetlands. This funding would also be used to continue planning several other related projects. The state of Louisiana and several federal agencies have participated in the development of this program. This report introduces this program, discusses whether it might have muted the impacts of a hurricane of the magnitude and paths of Katrina or Rita, and whether the devastation caused by both hurricanes might cause the Corps and other restoration supporters to propose either altering aspects of this proposed program, or expanding it.

This report discusses losses and national disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina that made landfall on the Gulf of Mexico coast with high velocity winds, storm surge, heavy rain, flooding, coastal erosion, hail, and tornadoes.

This report is about the status of existing reduced dimensional models of the dynamics of the Louisiana Coastal Current. Local, wind-driven models reproduce credibly the flow variability during the winter season.

Annual report of the Sabine River Compact Administration describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2005.

A report of an archaeological survey of the proposed construction of the Bengal Pipeline route in Louisiana.

This report is about the study of the inner shelf currents over the Louisiana and Texas shelf.

This report is about the development of the high-resolution integrated hydrology-hydrodynamic model in Louisiana.

This report is about the cooperative research on sperm whales and their response to seismic exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.

This report examines the interactions between changes in crude oil and natural gas prices, oil and gas production in the state offshore waters and measures of economic activities in Louisiana.

An historical evaluation and documentation of the offshore oil and gas industry and its impact on the economy of Southern Louisiana from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century.

This report contains several interviews of individuals who were employed by the oil and gas industry since its conception.

This study is about the history and evolution of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana in an objective and comprehensive way.