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Originally Posted by pesto
btw, why not cut the red tape for all projects? Is this just a selected political gift given only those who vote on the right side?
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I'm assuming this handful of projects is a trial balloon. If the environmental review can be managed successfully on these, then the President may direct that each project go through an expedited review.
I was thinking earlier today about how a project could do environmental-impact after the fact, by establishing a fund to deal with mitigation as part of the project budget, and then dealing with problems as they occur.
In the vast majority of cases, the huge impacts of a project can be predicted fairly easily and factored into the design. The small-scale impacts that affect only 4 or 5 properties can be mitigated after the bulk of construction.