USDA Cuts ‘Red Tape,’ Revises NEPA Regulations
USDA Cuts ‘Red Tape,’ Revises NEPA Regulations
The Department of Agriculture announced on Monday that it is revising the National Policy Act. This is an answer to our cuts to cut back overregulation and red tape in the government.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is revising National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations to reduce unnecessary red tape that is killing jobs and raising prices for Americans. This reform allows the Department to efficiently deliver the critical services and funds Americaās ranchers, farmers, loggers, and rural communities rely on and corrects the harms caused by decades of unnecessarily lengthy, cumbersome NEPA reviews.
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āPresident Trump is reforming government to be more responsive to the needs of the American people. We have been hamstrung by overly burdensome regulations for decades. USDA is updating and modernizing NEPA so projects critical to the health of our forests and prosperity of rural America are not stymied and delayed for years. So many beneficial and common-sense infrastructure and energy projects have been stymied and delayed in litigation and endless reviews. Overregulation has morphed the NEPA process into bureaucratic overreach on American innovation,āĀ said Secretary Rollins.
USDA is making common sense reforms to ensure the NEPA process does not cause unnecessary delays or stands in the way of American free enterprise. This move institutes reasonable considerations for environmental impacts and streamlines operations.
USDA is issuing one set of department-wide NEPA regulations by rescinding seven agency-specific regulations, resulting in a 66% reduction in regulations. This will allow USDA officials to concentrate resources on projects the public needs while also ensuring we honor the Departmentās legacy of land stewardship.
The move by USDA comes in response to President Trumpās executive order onĀ Unleashing American EnergyĀ that led to the Council on Environmental Qualityās rescinding its NEPA implementing regulations, which created a pathway for USDA to reform its own NEPA regulations.
A pre-publication version of USDAās interim final rule will be made available theĀ afternoon of June 30th. This version will be replaced with a link to the official publication of the interim final rule in the Federal Register at such time publication occurs.
We want to see an end to overregulation but, as Christians, we also want to be good stewards of God’s creation. Let’s pray that these changes grow the economy without hurting our environment.
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(Press release from the Department of Agriculture. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
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