The Biden administration has cleared up uncertainty about the role of a small office that irons out complex environmental permit reviews, part of a bid to speed permitting for wind farms and other projects, its executive director tells Bloomberg Law.
The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (FPISC) had been scheduled to sunset in December until it was reauthorized in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. Despite that lifeline, FPISC’s role under Biden wasn’t clear until he released his permitting action plan on May 11, which is thought to be the first time the president has publicly mentioned the ...
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