"Some people are finding out that they're only getting $81 a square foot in reconstruction costs, when the real cost is $200," he said.
The administration would particularly like help in covering reconstruction costs.
The 2006 and 2007 national budgets will also be revised, he added, to help meet reconstruction costs.
If the reconstruction cost more, the owner would have to pay the difference.
Other estimates have put the reconstruction cost much higher, with some going as high as $80 billion.
It was essentially rebuilt from scratch, and the reconstruction cost 127.8 million euro.
They'd like to see the rich pay a bigger share of the reconstruction cost.
That is separately accounted, since as you know, reconstruction costs are shared with the French government.
Its 1,088 stones were shaped according to the original techniques, and the reconstruction cost about €12 million.
And he is being challenged by some in his own party on the reconstruction costs of Katrina.