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This bill requires the Council on Environmental Quality to publish an annual report on lawsuits and environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Sec. 2, Annual report on NEPA's impact on projects: Starting July 1, 2024, the Council on Environmental Quality must publish online and submit to Congress a yearly report covering: (1) each lawsuit based on NEPA compliance filed from June 1 of the prior year to June 1 of the current year, including the lead federal agency and lead plaintiff, number of lawsuits by agency, alleged basis by type, and status or outcome (whether the action was reversed, allowed to proceed, required additional measures, settled, or is ongoing); (2) the length of environmental impact statements over the past 5 years, including average and median page counts (with quartiles), number by agency, and trends; and (3) timelines to complete environmental reviews over the past 10 years, including publication dates for notices of intent, draft and final statements, and records of decision, plus average and median timelines and trends. The Council must also publish the underlying data with each report.
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