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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION 4
119TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-395
STANDARDIZING PERMITTING AND EXPEDITING
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT
DECEMBER 4, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 4776]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4776) to amend the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969 to clarify ambiguous provisions and facilitate a more effi-
cient, effective, and timely environmental review process, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic
Development Act or the SPEED Act.
SEC. 2. NEPA REFORM.
(a) PURPOSE.-Section 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321) is amended-
(1) by striking The purposes and inserting (a) The purposes; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
(b) This Act is a purely procedural statute intended to ensure Federal agencies
consider the environmental impacts of their actions during the decisionmaking proc-
ess. This Act does not mandate particular results, and only prescribes a process.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to mandate any specific environmental out-
come or result, nor shall this Act be interpreted to confer substantive rights or im-
pose substantive duties beyond procedural requirements..
(b) PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINATION OF LEVEL OF REVIEw.-Section 106 of the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4336) is amended-
(1) in the heading, by inserting ; SCOPE OF REVIEW after LEVEL OF RE-
VIEW;
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