Biden-⁠Harris Administration Takes Action to Deliver More Projects More Quickly, Accelerates Federal Permitting

The Biden-Harris Administration is announcing two new actions that will help build more projects, more quickly.

• The Bureau of Land Management is announcing a roadmap to support expanded solar energy production by making renewable energy siting and permitting on America’s public lands more efficient. This action will help expedite reviews of solar projects by steering them to areas with high solar potential and low wildlife and land conflicts, and ease burdens on solar developers.
• The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the conditional approval of a new rule which will allow for new offsets to create clean air credits in Maricopa County. Companies with vehicle fleets can now generate credits by replacing or retrofitting diesel-burning vehicles with electric vehicles. Manufacturers or other new emitters can then purchase those credits to balance out their future emissions.

Past Biden-Harris actions to reform federal permitting have already delivered real results, including in broadband, where agencies are processing more than twice as many permits for high-speed internet projects on federal lands and property as they did under the prior Administration. Across the federal government, agencies are processing more than twice as many permits for high-speed internet projects on federal lands and property as they did under the prior Administration. NTIA has established and adopted a total of 36 new categorical exclusions to streamline processes, including for historic preservation and threatened and endangered species compliance for broadband.