They include a battle over a proposed Senate extension of the tax credit for gasoline mixed with ethanol and pilot projects in the House bill that would allow states to be certified to conduct environmental reviews of road projects.
Every year the Finnish company reviews its research projects, and those that are going nowhere could end up getting cut.
He's promised greater oversight of the procurement process, including intermediate reviews of weapons projects and the use of "shadow teams" to ensure that contracts awards are decided fairly.
In addition to unveiling the projects selected for expedited review today, the Administration will also instruct agencies throughout the executive branch to gather comprehensive information regarding their reviews of infrastructure projects, and the best practices they have developed.
The local authority group says that councils are still uncertain about whether there will be further reviews of decisions about building projects.
But you then assert that four firms may not provide sufficient choice for such projects as bank investigations and due-diligence reviews.
Ministers are concerned that judicial reviews, particularly in cases involving construction projects, are frustrating economic growth.
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But Republicans prevailed in a battle over streamlining environmental regulations and reviews, designed to speed completion of transport projects.
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The inspector generals who have been looking at each one of these projects -- there's a panel of 10 inspector generals that reviews this -- there's very, very few -- I mean, less than a couple dozen that have been referred for further investigation, based on all the reports of any fraud coming in as a conduct of the program.
Through the Presidential Memorandum, the President directed agencies to expedite environmental reviews and permit decisions for a selection of high priority infrastructure projects that will create a significant number of jobs, have already identified necessary funding, and where the significant steps remaining before construction are within the control and jurisdiction of the federal government and can be completed within 18 months.
The ever-optimistic Wildhorn is predictably romantic about the looming reviews from New York and prefers to focus his attention on several new projects.
If successful, the Bush administration will accomplish through rules what conservative Republicans have been unable to achieve in Congress: ending some environmental reviews that developers and other federal agencies blame for delays and cost increases on many projects.
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