Permitting Council Executive Director Releases Quarterly Agency Performance Report for Fiscal Year 2023 Quarter 1
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Permitting Council Press Office (media@permittting.gov)
WASHINGTON (April 3, 2023) - Today the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) Executive Director released the quarterly Agency Performance Report for Fiscal Year 2023 Quarter 1. This report evaluates agency compliance with provisions of Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41).
“This quarterly report showcases the hard work being done at our member agencies to achieve the ambitious infrastructure goals of the Biden-Harris administration,” says Christine Harada, Executive Director of the Permitting Council. “From the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to the Inflation Reduction Act and the Permitting Action Plan, the strides detailed in this report show how Permitting Council agencies are taking the charge given to them and using the embedded collaboration, coordination, and transparency of our program to make a difference as we work to build once-in-a-generation infrastructure.”
This report provides an overview of:
The current FAST-41 project portfolio
Agency implementation of the FAST-41 initiation process, including the requirements for Coordinated Project Plans (CPPs);
Agency completion of the required CPP quarterly updates;
Agency management of permitting timetables; and
Agency postings of required information to the Dashboard.
During the first fiscal quarter of 2023 there were 25 active FAST-41 covered projects on the Permitting Dashboard, with the majority in the offshore wind, solar, and other renewable energy sectors.
Performance highlights in this report include:
All three of the projects with CPP establishment deadlines in this reporting quarter were established timely, and in compliance with FAST-41 requirements.
All agencies met CPP review and update requirements for all twenty-seven projects on the Dashboard.
Agencies modified sixty-three of sixty-four completion dates in compliance with FAST-41 requirements.
Agencies met twenty-seven of twenty-eight completion dates that were posted on the Permitting Dashboard during this quarter.
View the Agency Performance Report here.
About the Permitting Council and FAST-41
Established in 2015 by Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41) and made permanent in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Permitting Council is a unique federal agency charged with improving the transparency and predictability of the federal environmental review and authorization process for certain critical infrastructure projects. The Permitting Council is comprised of the Permitting Council Executive Director, who serves as the Council Chair; 13 federal agency Council members (including deputy secretary-level designees of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Army, Commerce, Interior, Energy, Transportation, Defense, Homeland Security, and Housing and Urban Development, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chairs of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation); and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The Permitting Council coordinates federal environmental reviews and authorizations for projects that seek and qualify for FAST-41 coverage. FAST-41 covered projects are entitled to comprehensive permitting timetables and transparent, collaborative management of those timetables on the Federal Permitting Dashboard. FAST-41 covered projects may be in the renewable or conventional energy production, electricity transmission, energy storage, surface transportation, aviation, ports and waterways, water resource, broadband, pipelines, manufacturing, mining, carbon capture, semiconductors, artificial intelligence and machine learning, high-performance computing and advanced computer hardware and software, quantum information science and technology, data storage and data management, and cybersecurity sectors. The Permitting Council also serves as a federal center for permitting excellence, supporting federal efforts to improve infrastructure permitting including and beyond FAST-41 covered projects to the extent authorized by law, including activities that promote or provide for the efficient, timely, and predictable completion of environmental reviews and authorizations for federally-authorized infrastructure projects.
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Last Updated: Monday, April 3, 2023