(AP) — The price tag to run an environmental lab for soil and water analysis tops $5 million a year. The state’s environmental quality secretary estimates a private company could do the work for $2 million. Replacement of the state’s stockpile of food and bottled water for a hurricane will cost the emergency preparedness office upward of $3.5 million in two years. And the cost will be repeated again four years later. A private vendor says it could guarantee the same quantity of food and water over five years for an estimated $2 million. Louisiana agencies are pitching a litany of such outsourcing ideas, as they try to shrink their budgets amid years of projected shortfalls. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration embraced privatization of government work as a way to cut costs. Among the ideas: environmental permits written by private companies and state tax questions handled by contracted call centers