Posted on 06/09/2017 1:54:59 PM PDT by Innovative
President Trump promised on Friday to include “massive permit reform” in his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a way to speed up the lengthy construction approval process, which he blamed for getting in the way of efforts to repair the country’s infrastructure.
Trump's goal is to bring the approval process from as long as 10 years down to two years, while providing “one point of contact to deliver ‘yes or no’ for the entire federal government,” Trump said during a speech at the Department of Transportation headquarters.
The White House will try to achieve that target by setting up a new council to assist project managers, allowing permitting steps to occur simultaneously, establishing new penalties for federal agencies that miss deadlines and creating an online dashboard for managers to track projects.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Important, but lose in the noise unfortunately...
“Trump’s goal is to bring the approval process from as long as 10 years down to two years,...”
Like other government boondoggles, the “Permitting Process” is simply another means to provide jobs to idiots and extract money ( and time ) from the productive members of society. I watched years ago as the son of the owner of the company in which I was employed worked to get the “necessary permits” to build his home on the shores of San Francisco Bay. The “Permitting Process” was designed to make sure that he never got all of the required permits before some of them had “expired” necessitating a “re-application” for same.
For some reason I think this will turn out verrrry different than Obama’s infrastructure spending.
This alone would be worth 1/2% to GDP.
I watched part of this today. Talk about hitting at one of the root causes. I love it!!
Absolutely right. We couldn’t build a Hoover dam equivalent these days under current conditions. If he manages to get this through, he will have done more to make America Great again than those of the last 100 years. I was jumping for joy. :-)
This is exactly it. Years ago, we did fed work along highways. It became such a boondoggle of attorney fees, and in the end, contract requirements would be changed so much that only certain applicants could ever hope to win them. Guess which applicants those were? Very connected companies owned by cousins, sisters and wives of politicians. We lost bid after bid to companies that were not even in business for 2 years, who had no working capital, no employees, no equipment, etc. They became more or less brokers for fed jobs, who just hired out subs to do the work for pennies on the dollar that they earned.
Also, they never had any risk in the ventures, they don’t purchase equipment, they don’t float loans to buy the materials etc.
It’s a fed feeding trough, and the only ones allowed to belly up to the trough are those who can bribe and kick-back in good fashion.
Needless to say, these companies tend to last about 2 construction seasons here, then they disappear (leaving many holding the bag), but then somehow, another company comes along to take its place, operated by the same people who pulled the first scam.
We got left holding the bag several times on fed and state jobs, we got some reimbursement on fed jobs, but since our state is now basically bankrupt, we lost millions in purchased materials on a few other jobs. We will never get that money back, we are so far down on the list, it just ain’t gonna happen in my lifetime.
The permit process is intended to weed out those who are not willing to “play ball”.
this is one of the reasons the deep state wants to sink trump. correct the permit process and you deprive families like McCain, Bush, Kerry, and gore one of the ways there families are able to enrich themselves at the publics expense.
“...our state is now basically bankrupt...”
Which state, CA ?
“Guess which applicants those were? Very connected companies owned by cousins, sisters and wives of politicians. “
Guess how Paul Pelosi and Richard Blum (Nancy Pelosi’s and Dianne Fineswine’s husbands) became multimillionaires?
they need to reform internal too... I work for an agency that to do some things has to file a bunch of paperwork to send to another agency and wait 30 days for that agency to ignore it. Thousands of these are filed per year. One or two might get a response. That response is advisory and says we can ignore it the .1% of the time we actually get one..
But the Russians... the Russians... the Russians....
Illinois...
I hope reform comes to the FDA and the drug approval process too. People die waiting for life saving drugs to be approved.
Dont leave out Clintons.
She probably can't remember how times she said this about President Ronald Bush since he was elected all the way back in 2021.
This is probably the one area where Trump is indisputably most expert technically having been in this business his entire life.
Republicans should pass this quietly, while the demographics are chasing their own tail around allegedly looking for the source of tier own spoke.
So while everyone was freaking out about covfefe, Trump quietly behind the scenes set this up and the Dems have no coordinated opposition to this bill.
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