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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Department of Energy National Laboratory

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Federal government builds digital permitting stack for environmental reviews

New Capabilities

Building AI-powered NEPA document corpus and search tools

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has governed federal environmental reviews since 1970. For most of that time, the process has run on paper documents, siloed databases, and ad hoc searches across agencies. Now, for the first time, the federal government is assembling a public digital stack for permitting: a common data standard, a searchable database of 2,290 categorical exclusions across 60-plus agencies, a workflow tool for completing environmental reviews digitally, and developer resources built around application programming interfaces (APIs) and shared schemas.

Updated Feb 21