North Dakota's Fedorchak Wants to Give Senate a Menu For Permitting Changes
Providing the Senate with a variety of permitting reform packages may lead to a consolidation of ideas with bipartisan support, she said.
WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2025 – At her INCOMPAS Policy Summit appearance on Thursday, Rep. Julie Fedorchak R-N.D. said that she senses that there’s desire and urgency to pass permitting reform on both sides of the aisle in an effort to speed up the process of infrastructure development.
As a result, the House has passed several bills such such as the PERMIT Act, which amends the Clean Water Act by redefining navigable waters in an effort to speed up permitting timelines for infrastructure project.
And it's passed the SPEED Act which revises provisions in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to limit the number of actions that would require an environmental review, often cited as main driver of delays for infrastructure projects.
