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Are there any overlapping issues, and can you tell us any areas of strengths or areas you see improvements through this process going forward? This will be open to anyone who wants to start off.— if anyone wants to decline now, we won't hold it against you. Yeah, so happy to start off from the DNR side, and folks probably know our Office of Project Management and Permitting has been working very closely with the Governor's Office on this MOU, getting it in place, and then now on its implementation. You know, and I would say a couple things about the FAST-41 process and what the MOU is intended to do, and that's really to open the door to the state participating, encouraging projects to get on the dashboard, and then participating with the federal agencies for those projects that are on the dashboard to ensure that the state voice is heard and that the timelines work for the state, for the project, and to get the work done. You know, we had— the state had a little bit of experience with this dashboard process in the first Trump administration.

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