Softened NEPA Deadlines In Army Corps Bill Win Environmentalists' Praise

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The House-Senate deal authorizing Army Corps of Engineers waterways projects softens deadlines for reviewing the projects' environmental impacts, a move that is drawing praise from environmentalists who have touted the changes as a drastic improvement over the versions of the legislation that passed Congress in 2013. "Generally, we had a lot of objections to the bill and to the language, and they did make the changes that we were most concerned about....We're very pleased that the conference took a balanced approach, as opposed to some of the more meat-axe ideas that were floating around to try to use this bill as an opportunity to cut the [National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)] process," says one environmentalist.