Even three years after Katrina, it is easy to spot the debris left after the storm, sunken boats can be seen littering bayous and boat launches, and the state's marine debris coordinator says there are more than 400 objects catalogued in Orleans Parish alone.

"We've found a surprising amount of debris of all different kinds, everything from toilet seats to Toyotas," said State Marine Debris Coordinator Leo Richardson.

For boaters like lifelong fisherman Frank Woolley, the debris still in the water keeps him very worried.

"There's floating debris like cross ties and heavy timbers that are like right below the surface or right at the surface," he said.

So he listened intently at Tuesday afternoon's meeting of local, state and federal officials to go over data  about what debris has been located in Orleans Parish, and is scheduled to be removed, a concern for city leaders worried about the impact on area businesses.

"The major crabbing industries and some major fishing industries that work out of these waterways," said Robert Mendoza, the city Public Works director.

This is the second and crucial meeting in a months-long process to search out the debris with boats equipped with sonar, and develop a list of items to be picked up by the Coast Guard in a program funded by FEMA.

But it was too much bureaucracy for one state legislator.

"The amount of bureaucracy is so high it makes me very discouraged of the things that we have to go through to get the simple things done," said state Rep. Austin Badon.

There are at least 26 parishes in the Marine Debris Removal Program, but the coordinator said Orleans is only the third parish to reach this stage, the final review before the Coast Guard hires contractors to get the debris out of here.

Robert Travis of the Coast Guard, said, "I would say within the next three or four months -- as fast as we can get contracts let under the federal contracting system – (and) it'll be done within the year."

Debris data for St. Bernard Parish is now being coordinated, at least 400 objects, and also for Plaquemines Parish, which has 1,500 items on the list so far.