For weeks, Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., has attacked BP and the Coast Guard for not having adequate plans and resources to battle the oil spill. But interviews with more than two dozen state and federal officials and experts suggest that Louisiana, from the earliest days of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has often disregarded its own longstanding plans and experts in favor of large-scale proposals that many say would probably have had limited effectiveness and could have even hampered the response. On the first weekend in May, after the governor declared a state of emergency and weeks before heavy oil began to hit the coast, senior members of the Jindal administration decided the unified command was not working. On May 3, Jindal went public with his dissatisfaction. 'We kept being assured over and over that they had a plan, that there was a detailed plan, that it was coming; we never got that plan,' he said. Under the law, oil spill experts said, there are only two kinds of government plans pertaining to spills, and the state is partly responsible for both. The amount of hard boom the state requested, about 1 1/2 times the national stockpile, was more than three times what the southeast Louisiana area contingency plan said would be required to boom the state's entire coastline. Still, the unified command put much of the state and parish plan into effect over the next few weeks, while also continuing to draw up its day-to-day action plans. A little over a week later, Jindal began to push a sand berm strategy. Working off an idea put forward by a pair of Dutch marine research and engineering firms, the plan called for the construction of 140 miles of sand barriers, in 24 segments, to protect the inner coastline from oil. While a series of revisions were being made by state and federal agencies, Jindal kept up the political pressure, saying June 2 that 10 miles of berms could have already been constructed if the federal government had immediately granted the permit. The next day, Coast Guard Adm. Thad W. Allen, the national incident commander for the spill, approved the building and financing, at BP's expense, of six of the berms at a cost of $360 million, saying he was satisfied that they 'will effectively stem potential damage' to the shoreline. The public disagreements have not stopped. This week federal authorities halted the dredging of sand for the berms in a certain part of the Chandeleur Islands, saying it violated the state's permit and could jeopardize the islands themselves. Jindal replied by urging the federal government to 'get out of the way' of a necessary defense strategy. 