USEA Chief: Infrastructure Improvement Will Get Much-Needed Momentum Thanks To New NEPA Rule
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration streamlined the way federal and state agencies will assess the environmental impact of proposed critical infrastructure projects through a new process that includes better engagement with the public and Native American tribes.
In an event in Atlanta at UPS, President Trump said the clunky 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which hasn’t had a major revision in 40 years, until now, had morphed into redundant compliance requirements and an unreasonably laborious review process that has delayed each infrastructure project, from roads to bridges to pipelines, by seven years on average.