Southeast

Part of a noise-mitigation plan for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has fallen apart after the Federal Aviation Administration disapproved portions of it.

The Federal Highway Administration last week approved the location of the $1.9 billion Wekiva Parkway, a 27-mile toll road that would complete a beltway around western metropolitan Orlando.

The Alabama Legislature ended a special session last week by passing a bill that will ask voters to increase borrowing for economic development projects.

Jefferson County, Ala., plans public hearings on sewer rate increases from June through the fall, according to the Birmingham News.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing $3.19 billion of gas project revenue bonds that the Tennessee Energy Acquisition Corp. issued in 2006.

DALLAS — The Louisiana Senate Finance Committee on Monday restored $340 million of budgets cuts made by the House in the $25.5 billion budget for fiscal 2013.

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean is proposing a $300 million, bond-financed capital plan for fiscal 2013.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Bond insurer Syncora Guarantee Inc. warned prospective buyers of some of Jefferson County, Ala.'s defaulted auction-rate sewer warrants that the insurer may seek to subordinate that debt to its own claims if the warrants are sold to investors by JPMorgan.

Fitch Ratings last week downgraded the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority’s rating to A from A-plus.

Louisiana Secretary of Corrections James LeBlanc said Monday that proposed spending cuts required by the House-approved budget for fiscal 2013 could force the closure of three prisons and the cancellation of a monitoring program for sex offenders.