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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 4664 (Introduced in Senate) — To require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to promote the use of artificial intelligence to support th... · Sec. 5

Sec. 5. Federal permitting

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Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a program to improve Federal permitting processes for energy-related projects, including critical materials projects, using artificial intelligence. In carrying out the program established under subsection (a), the Secretary shall carry out activities, including activities that— analyze data and provide tools from past environmental and other permitting reviews, including by— extracting data from applications for comparison with data relied on in environmental reviews to assess the adequacy and relevance of applications; extracting information from past site-specific analyses in the area of a current project; summarizing key mitigation actions that have been successfully applied in past similar projects; and using AI for deeper reviews of past determinations under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ) to inform more flexible and effective categorical exclusions; and build tools to improve future reviews, including— tools for project proponents that accelerate preparation of environmental documentation; tools for government reviewers such as domain-specific large language models that help convert geographic information system or tabular data on resources potentially impacted into rough-draft narrative documents; tools to be applied in nongovernmental settings, such as automatic reviews of applications to assess the completeness of information; and a strategic plan to implement and deploy online and digital tools to improve Federal permitting activities, developed in consultation with— the Secretary of the Interior; the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System land; the Executive Director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council established by section 41002(a) of the FAST Act ( 42 U.S.C. 4370m–1(a) ); and the heads of any other relevant Federal department or agency, as determined appropriate by the Secretary.
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