Infrastructure Project Acceleration Act

This bill expedites the environmental review and approval process for large manufacturing projects in the United States. It defines a "priority manufacturing project" as the construction or expansion of a manufacturing facility costing at least $1,000,000,000 that requires certain federal approvals. The bill exempts these projects from specific permits under the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act, modifies the National Environmental Policy Act review process to allow state or tribal environmental reviews to substitute for federal review, and limits judicial review of approvals for these projects to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Sec. 2, Expedited approval of priority manufacturing projects: This section defines a priority manufacturing project as a U.S. manufacturing facility construction or expansion costing at least $1 billion that needs one or more federal approvals. It exempts such projects from permits required under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and sections 7, 9, or 10 of the Endangered Species Act. It amends the National Environmental Policy Act to allow a lead agency to accept a state or tribal environmental review as functionally equivalent if the agency considered relevant environmental information and informed the public. It also strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review any agency action approving a priority manufacturing project, giving the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit original and exclusive jurisdiction over claims challenging the validity of this section or that an approval exceeded its authority.