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Since my appointment to the Permitting Council last year, our team has worked to ensure the agency adheres to the directives given to us by Congress while following the clear leadership of the president to ensure an efficient permitting process while fully retaining the environmental and regulatory protections established in the law. I believe we are operating at the full potential of our authorizing statute for the first time in this agency's history and are effectively executing on the mission Congress intended. Since the beginning of President Trump's second term, the Permitting Council has added an additional 79 projects to the FAST-41 dashboard 39 covered projects, and 40 transparency projects. But I'm even more proud of the number of projects that have completed their federal reviews in that same time. 26 FAST-41 projects have been completed since January of last year, which is about one-fourth of the projects that have ever been completed in this agency's history.

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