Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2495 – Institutions of higher education
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2495
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Discharge: means the placing, releasing, spilling, percolating, draining, pumping, leaking, seeping, emitting, or other escaping of pollutants into the air, waters, subsurface water, or ground as the result of a prior act or omission; or the placing of pollutants into pits, drums, barrels, or similar containers under conditions and circumstances that leaking, seeping, draining, or escaping of the pollutants can be reasonably anticipated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
The coordinator by interagency contract may provide grants to state institutions of higher education for research, testing, and development of discharge prevention and response technology; discharge response training; wildlife and natural resources protection, rescue, and rehabilitation; development of computer models to predict the movements and impacts of discharges; and other purposes consistent with and in furtherance of the purposes of this Chapter. Contracts or agreements relating to wildlife, aquatic resources, and habitats under the jurisdiction of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries shall be made in coordination with that department. Contracts or agreements relating to wetlands and coastal resources under the jurisdiction of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources shall be made in coordination with that department. To the greatest extent possible, contracts shall be coordinated with studies being done by other state agencies, the federal government, or private industry to minimize duplication of efforts.
Acts 1991, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 7, §1, eff. April 23, 1991; Acts 1995, No. 740, §1; Acts 2023, No. 150, §5, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.