ID: 1961
Presenting Author: Ted Boling
Session: 632 - What in the World is Going on with NEPA?
Status: pending
This session will review the United States’ effort to avoid impact assessment or improve the efficiency and effectiveness of federal permitting processes and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) e
This session will review the United States’ effort to avoid impact assessment or improve the efficiency and effectiveness of federal permitting processes and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental impact assessment reviews. It will discuss the impacts of the elimination of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations and replacement with a Permitting Technology Action Plan to modernize environmental reviews. This session will analyze the implementation of CEQ’s Report to Congress on the Potential for Online and Digital Technologies to Address Delays in Reviews and Improve Public Accessibility and Transparency, that evaluates the potential for technology to improve environmental review and permitting processes.
This session also explores how NEPA-implementing agencies are responding to the Supreme Court’s decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, and Executive and Congressional direction on changes to their permitting processes, including discretionary public involvement.
Ted Boling is a Partner at Perkins Coie, LLP, where he advises clients on the development of renewable energy generation and transmission, resource development, transportation, and water projects.