Does anyone disagree that on major highway projects we should absolutely bring those averages way down?
To this pro-business conservative Republican, that seems absurd.
Any legislation is only as good as its implementation.
Nobody is saying get rid of the NEPA process, nobody is saying get rid of the review process. But it needs to be far more efficient and stra...
This is a national issue, be assured. We might be feeling it first.
So just to underscore, this is the same pushback we got when we talked about this originally.
The desire for that reform grew from something pretty simple and basic, real frustration over projects stuck in bureaucratic purgatory.
So as Senator Vitter points out, you can very easily get to these very high numbers if you are in an area of significant risk.
I am asking you to properly recognize a lot of true implementation problems that make a lot of the implementation not ready for prime time.
What we are really focused on, I think everybody knows, are major transportation projects.
the average delivery time is 14 years from start to finish.