Chief of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, with a track record in public procurement and private development, shares insight on how agency guides the government's behind the scenes push to expedite project approvals.
Calculating the costs of some project delays requires the use of advanced mathematics but the discipline may not have progressed far enough to measure what’s been lost with the suspension of the New England Clean Energy Connect project.
The West Virginia Democrat new project permit reform package includes deadlines and limits for NEPA reviews and for court challenges of infrastructure project approvals.
Senate Democrats call Republican-backed House bill passed on April 26 as "dead on arrival," but measures in it to speed permitting could gain bipartisan support.
With Senate hearings due on possible legislation to speed up federal review and permitting for construction projects, a coalition of construction and other business groups is pushing the case for bipartisan legislation to meet that goal.
Republican "priority" legislation passed 225-204 but has provisions that will make it "dead on arrival" in the U.S. Senate, said Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as new efforts progress on a bipartisan bill to expedite needed transmission infrastructure