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- It The Department of Defense has been rationalized Its national environmental policy law implementing procedures, said the agency in a statement on Monday. It is part of an effort throughout the Government to ensure coherent and timely environmental reviews for infrastructure projects.
- The changes will reduce the time and cost associated with the NEPA process, allowing faster construction to the industrial defense base and military construction projects, according to the statement.
- Updated procedures are in accordance with the recent modifications of NEPA in January of President Donald Trump Undoing American Energy’s executive orderto Provisions of builder law Within the debt roof of 2023 and with the decision of the Supreme Court of October 2024 Seven COUNTY INFRESTRUCTURE COALITION V. Eagle CountyAccording to the launch.
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In addition to the DOD, the United States Army Engineers Corps, the Federal Energy Regulation Commission and the Departments of Agriculture, Trade, Interior, Energy and Transportation updated his respective Nepa The implementation procedures, the White House said in a statement on Monday.
The updates will ensure that “that federal environmental reviews cannot be armed to stop the growth of the North -American economy or to stop the construction of energy infrastructure”, according to the White House.
This is what the changes will make for all agencies, according to the White House:
- Implement the deadlines and limits of the page in the environmental reviews needed in the recent modifications to the NEPA, in order to accelerate the development of infrastructure and reduce costs.
- Provide that NEPA does not apply to all actions taken by a federal agency, but only to federal actions where the agency has sufficient control and discretion to take into account environmental effects.
- To guarantee simple and expedient processes to create categorical exclusions and adopt the categorical exclusions of other agencies to minimize NEPA repetitive analyzes.
Since resumed the post, the President has taken a series of steps to review the federal permission process and accelerate construction projects.
On the day of its inauguration in January, Trump signed executive orders that Trim the Nepa’s decision -making powers of the White House And he declared a “national energy emergency” to accelerate permits for oil, gas, nuclear, coal, hydroelectric and biofuels, along with mines that collect critical materials.
In April, Trump signed a note that required Federal agencies to integrate technology In their revision workflows to accelerate the processing time of infrastructure projects. It requires that the Environmental Quality Council emit a technological action plan that will allow the aim of eliminating the process of paper -based application and review and reduce project delays.
