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FEMA twice failed to give Congress plan to evacuate New Orleans
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of CNN/Associated Press
CNN/Associated Press, September 18, 2005
Posted: November 23rd, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/17/katrina.evacuation.ap
Posted: November 23rd, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/17/katrina.evacuation.ap
Eight years ago Congress...set aside $500,000 for FEMA to create "a comprehensive analysis and plan of all evacuation alternatives for the New Orleans metropolitan area." Frustrated two years later that no study had materialized, Congress strengthened its directive. This time it ordered "an evacuation plan for a Category 3 or greater storm, a levee break, flood or other natural disaster for the New Orleans area." The $500,000 that Congress appropriated for the evacuation plan went to a commission that studied future options for the 24-mile bridge over Lake Pontchartrain.
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