President Donald Trump signing a decree. (Al Drago / Bloomberg News)
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President Donald Trump signed a directive on April 15 to strengthen the use of technology in the authorization process for infrastructure developments, is part of a wider administrative effort to reduce administrative formalities and accelerate the approval of new projects.
The memorandum orders ministries and executive agencies to make “maximum use of technology in environmental examination and the infrastructure project permit processes, such as roads, bridges, mines, factories, power plants and others.”
It seeks to eliminate the use of paper applications and to revise processes, reduce the need for double data submissions and facilitate work to accelerate the approval of projects – including by using analyzes of different parts of the government – and by increasing the transparency and predictability of permit calendars.
The directive calls for the chairman of the environmental quality council, after consulting the National Energy Dominance Council and other agencies concerned, to issue an authorization technological action plan to modernize the technology used for federal permits and environmental examinations. And he ordered the president of the CEQ to establish and direct an internsit in innovation center which will design and test the prototypes to stimulate the effort to exploit technology.
Trump has promised to help accelerate permits for companies wishing to invest in the United States, striking longtime bipartite complaints During long waiting times for the proposed projects that seek to eliminate environmental examinations and secure federal authorizations.
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The president has promised to strengthen domestic manufacturing and energy production, in particular by the use of Trade Partners Prices And Key sectors of the economy In order to convince companies to collect more investment and jobs in the United States
Trump has regularly cited specific investment promises by eminent companies, Order projects And promising to help accelerate their completion.
Earlier on April 15, Trump underlined the plans of Nvidia Corp., the dominant player in Chips for Artificial Intelligence, for produce $ 500 billion in AI infrastructure in the United States And promised, in an article in its Truth social network, that “all the necessary permits will be accelerated and quickly delivered”.
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