Mr Former President, why in 1998 did your Administration scrap an Army Corp of Engineers plan to raise the New Orleans levees to withstand a Cat 5 Hurricane as "not cost effect"?
There was one story that Clinton killed the study. Nobody has provided any evidence to support that, except to say "See Federal Register."
I did some research (link below), and conclude that if Clinton did kill the study, he did so with the approval of Congress - and in fact, it appears as though the Congressional conference committee killed the study.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478248/posts?page=82#82
One of my best friends as a kid ended up being his dorm mate at Georgetown in college. My buddy, a very, very smary guy, said that Clinton was always hanging around some of the "northerners", trying constantly to win their approval. He had and has a real problem.
Arkansas watermelons, his mother's odd behavior, and Hot Springs on his mind constantly.
Aha ... here is a reference to multiple flood control projects. The articles are taken from the Times-Picayune.
Nothing for 1998, but this one from 1995 deescribes a "holding up of a study," and thereby preventing Congress from allocating funds.
- READ THE STUFF AT THE LINK - There are 15 to 20 separate stories, and taken together provide a more accurate picture of the complexity of the issue(s).
June 23, 1995
A hurricane project, approved and financed since 1965, to protect more than 140,000 West Bank residents east of the Harvey Canal is in jeopardy.The Clinton administration is holding back a Corps of Engineers report recommending that the $120 million project proceed. Unless that report is forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget, Congress cannot authorize money for the project, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's office said Thursday.
http://eurota.blogspot.com/2005/09/us-left-all-straws-clutched-every.html