Trump Issues Memo To Speed Permitting By Updating Technology

President Donald Trump is ordering EPA and other agencies to “leverage technology” upgrades to speed permitting reviews, including eliminating the use of “paper-based applications and review processes,” reducing the length and increasing the accessibility of documents and maintaining “a readily available source of information relevant to the judicial review of any permits.” In an April 15 memo , Trump notes the government’s current approach causes “significant delay to important infrastructure projects that impact our economic well-being. This will now change...