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WASHINGTON D.C. - Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement after introducing the NEPA Agency Process Accountability Act, legislation designed to reduce unnecessary delays and burdensome paperwork while also promoting better environmental decision making.

“The NEPA process has become a bungling bureaucratic nightmare that delays investments, hurts our ability to build new infrastructure in a timely manner, and creates endless streams of lawsuits from lawyers and bad actors. 

From start to finish, the review process can drag on for years and years. In fact, the average time for project approval now stands at 5.2 years, creating an unnecessary roadblock for important projects to begin.

This bill will streamline the agencies environmental review process, reduce duplicative paperwork and unnecessary analysis, thereby decreasing the cost and time needed to complete critically needed infrastructure projects,” said Rep. Gosar.

Click here to read a one-page summary of the NEPA Agency Process Accountability Act and click here to read a copy of the legislation.