Washington, April 24 -- Congressman John Joyce issued the following press release:
Last week, H.R.6398 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6398), the RED Tape Act, led by Congressman John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13), passed the U.S. House with bipartisan support and will now move to the Senate for consideration. The legislation would eliminate a duplicative environmental review process that imposes costly and unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles.
Under current law, when a federal agency prepares an environmental impact statement (EIS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to review and publicly comment on the environmental impacts of other agencies' projects-even when the EPA has already participated in the init...