To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify ambiguous provisions and facilitate a more efficient, effective, and timely environmental review process, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Revises the National Environmental Policy Act to clarify procedural standards and accelerate federal environmental review timelines and coordination.
Who Benefits and How
Federal agencies and project sponsors could benefit from a more defined and faster environmental review process with fewer procedural ambiguities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Communities and stakeholders relying on broader or slower review could face a narrower or more accelerated process.
Key Provisions
- Clarifies NEPA provisions that the bill characterizes as ambiguous.
- Aims to make environmental review more efficient, effective, and timely.
- Applies the changes across federal environmental review practice rather than to a single project category.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Revises the National Environmental Policy Act to clarify procedural standards and accelerate federal environmental review timelines and coordination.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Government Operations, Infrastructure
Primary Purpose
Revises the National Environmental Policy Act to clarify procedural standards and accelerate federal environmental review timelines and coordination.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal agencies and project sponsors seeking faster NEPA review
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Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Communities and stakeholders relying on broader or slower review processes
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Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Federal agencies conducting environmental reviews, Federal agencies issuing environmental permits
Environmental advocacy and conservation organizations, Environmental and public interest litigants, Environmental litigation organizations
Communities affected by environmental impacts of development projects, Communities seeking judicial review of environmental decisions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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