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        <fullName>Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Coastal Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for expenditures for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-approved projects for the control or abatement of shoreline erosion in the United States greater than two feet per year (based on data published by the Bureau of Economic Geology of the University of Texas). </p>]]></text>
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