02-20-2019, 03:27 PM
HOTPE: "environmental extremists aren’t likely to obstruct or prevent Highway 132 from reopening. Did anyone try and stop the grading on Red Road? The access to PGV? Any personal access roads?"
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Apparently not. But what critics of NEPA have long wanted is the ability to get waivers from NEPA permitting on certain projects.
I am not a NEPA expert, but know environmentalists have long opposed any amendment that would allow NEPA regs to be circumvented in select cases any easier than that existing law now allows.
Say....oh, like when lava overruns a critically important community road. (Or the Uncle Billy's demolition, which construction experts cannot undertake until a $1 million NEPA consulting project (EA/EIS) is undertaken so consultants can tell those experts how to do their demolition.)
Lisa cited an abridging (shortening) of some NEPA permitting processes. Considering the circumstances, how about a waiver?
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Apparently not. But what critics of NEPA have long wanted is the ability to get waivers from NEPA permitting on certain projects.
I am not a NEPA expert, but know environmentalists have long opposed any amendment that would allow NEPA regs to be circumvented in select cases any easier than that existing law now allows.
Say....oh, like when lava overruns a critically important community road. (Or the Uncle Billy's demolition, which construction experts cannot undertake until a $1 million NEPA consulting project (EA/EIS) is undertaken so consultants can tell those experts how to do their demolition.)
Lisa cited an abridging (shortening) of some NEPA permitting processes. Considering the circumstances, how about a waiver?