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Don Young: “NEPA itself was never intended to be an obstructionist part of our infrastructure, nor building of any other thing. But…”

On the recordNovember 28, 2017
NEPA itself was never intended to be an obstructionist part of our infrastructure, nor building of any other thing. But it has been used as that.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Young criticizes NEPA for being misused as an obstruction to infrastructure projects.

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