 In 2005, the estimated cost of construction for the completed project is $738 million with the federal share being $528 million and the local share $210 million.The initial scope of the project was to provide hurricane protection to areas around the lake in the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, and St. Charles with the federal government paying 70 percent of the costs and the state and local interests paying 30 percent, the typical cost-share arrangement.Sec 204 of the Act authorized projects in the following locations