Sec. 4. Development of prototype tools
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The Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, in consultation with the Administrator of General Services, the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, the Chief Information Officers Council, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and other relevant stakeholders and Federal agencies, shall design, test, and build prototype tools for environmental reviews and authorizations that will assist Federal agencies in implementing the minimum functional requirements described in section 5.
The Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality shall prioritize designing, testing, and building tools under this section that— support authorization case or project management systems that manage tasks, milestones, and activities associated with environmental reviews and authorizations, and provide Federal agencies more data and insight into such reviews and authorizations; enable— application submission and tracking portals used by project sponsors, enabling greater transparency; and public comment opportunity tracking portals to increase transparency; facilitate automated applications, environmental reviews. and authorizations; allow data exchange between Federal agency systems; and accelerate complex environmental reviews.