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Energy Infrastructure Permitting: Factors Affecting Timeliness and Efficiency

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 6, 2018
Release Date Sept. 6, 2018
Report No. GAO-18-693T
Summary:

Federal agencies play a critical role in ensuring that energy infrastructure projects comply with federal statutes and regulations. We testified about the role of federal agencies in reviewing and permitting various types of energy infrastructure, such as offshore oil and gas projects.

We found that a number of factors affect the timeliness and efficiency of these reviews—such as coordination between federal agencies, the number of experts that agencies have to review applications, whether agencies are tracking and collecting milestone information, the completeness of applications, and changes in federal policy that affect reviews.

 

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