DOT Soliciting Ways to Improve Government Permitting, Eyeing Infrastructure Effort
The Transportation Department “issued a public call in the Federal Register soliciting solutions and suggestions on ways to improve government permitting,” Secretary Elaine Chao said at headquarters Friday during an event on the administration's infrastructure effort. “If you have ideas,…
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we want to hear.” She recently said an administration infrastructure proposal is likely coming in Q3 and named broadband as one component (see 1706070029). “The excruciating wait time for permitting has inflicted enormous financial pain for cities and states,” President Donald Trump said at the event. The administration is “setting up a new council to help project managers” manage the federal bureaucracy, Trump said, promising “a new online dashboard allowing everyone to track every project through every stage of the approval process. This council will make sure that every federal agency that is consistently delaying projects by missing deadlines will face tough new penalties.”