Gregory Braker,
Peggy Strand and
Kathryn Floyd published "New 'Streamlined' DOI
Strategy Takes Regional Approach" in Law360 on June
24, 2014.
On April 10, 2014, Sally Jewell, Secretary of the U.S. Department
of the Interior, released a new strategy to implement mitigation
policies and practices that will more effectively encourage
infrastructure development while protecting natural and cultural
resources: "A Strategy for Improving the Mitigation Policies
and Practices of the Department of the Interior." In theory,
the strategy will help to streamline the environmental review and
permitting process, especially for large, complex projects (e.g.,
roads, railways, transmission lines, pipelines and mines). In
practice, the numerous policies and guidelines that the DOI will be
preparing over the next few years to implement this strategy could
result in greater burdens on development projects, as the
department appears poised to impose new mitigation obligations
without a clear legal basis for doing so.
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