Modernizing the Infrastructure Permitting ProcessDownload the latest Action Plan and Progress Update
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Goal Leader:
Mary Neumayr
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality
Goal Leader:
Alex Herrgott
Executive Director, Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council
Goal Leader:
Peter Warren
Associate Director, Office of Management & Budget
Download the latest Action Plan and Progress Update
❝We're working to make a cultural change in the permitting process, by applying predictability, accountability, and transparency to what has been an impenetrable black box.❞
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Improving the Federal environmental review and authorization process will enable infrastructure project sponsors to start construction sooner, create jobs earlier, and fix our Nation’s infrastructure faster while also ensuring that a project’s potential impacts on environmental and community resources are considered and managed throughout the planning process. Infrastructure investment strengthens our economic platform, makes America more competitive, creates millions of jobs, increases wages for American workers, and reduces the costs of goods and services for American families and consumers.
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The American people rely on infrastructure improvements to benefit our economy, society, and environment. However, inefficient decision processes, including environmental reviews and permit decisions or authorizations have delayed infrastructure investments and increased project costs.
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This goal will: reduce time and cost to complete environmental reviews and authorizations for new major infrastructure projects; increase predictability and transparency for project investors and stakeholders; and result in agencies implementing clear timetables, consistent processes to make decisions, and best practices. A public dashboard tracks individual projects at www.permits.performance.gov.
News
June 27, 2019
Accountability Scorecard for Major Infrastructure Projects
Agencies Show Transparency, Progress Toward Modernizing Infrastructure Permitting With Release of Scorecards.
June 20, 2019
Summer Updates Show Progress on Cross-Agency and Agency Priority Goals
Today, teams tasked with implementing the Federal government’s high-priority initiatives released their June 2019 progress updates for both Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goals and Agency Priority Goals (APGs).
