The final construction funding bill passed by the Louisiana Legislature late Tuesday included $6.891 million for projects that would affect Concordia Parish.

The major part of the bill governs the use of money borrowed through bond sales — about $1.81 billion. The rest deals with cash — federal money and gasoline taxes dedicated to specific construction projects.

How many of the projects will actually begin hinges to a large extent on how many bonds the state decides to sell this fall, Commissioner of Administration Mark Drennen said. Drennen said the sale would most likely be between $300 and $400 million.

Pending approval from the State Bond Commission, Vidalia would get $130,000 for its Vidalia Landing riverfront project in fiscal year 2000-01, which begins July 1.

After more planning is done on the project’s final phases, town officials could go back to the Bond Commission to get approval for the other $1.45 million, Rep. Bryant Hammett, D-Ferriday, chairman of Ways and Means and author of the bill, has said.

The $45 million development could include a visitors center, stores, restaurants, an amphitheater, condominiums, recreational fields and other attractions. A group of doctors is planning to build an imaging center, outpatient surgical center and doctors’ offices there.

Four other local projects will get funding under the bill.

The bill included $936,000 to build a new Ferriday office for the Office of Wildlife’s Region IV, which is outgrowing a building it first occupied in the 1950s. It also included $100,000 for renovation of the old Ferriday post office on Louisiana Avenue to house the Ferriday Museum. That would be matched with $229,000 in local donations, the purchase price of the building and in-kind work.

The capital outlay bill also includes $4.025 million to raise the Mississippi River levee from Arkansas to Old River. Louisiana will also supplement $1 million in federal money with $50,000 in state funds to help plan the four-laning of U.S. 84 and Louisiana 6 from Vidalia to Texas.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.