VIDEO: U.S. ARMY CORPS CONFIRMS TO CAPITO THAT BIDEN CLIMATE POLICIES DELAYING KEY PROJECTS

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“The Fiscal Responsibility Act contain various amendments to NEPA intended to improve the environmental process for all types of projects, including water resource projects. In prior WRDA’s [biennial Water Resources Development Act] Congress's provided the Corps with specific authorities to improve this process. Can you describe what actions the Corps has taken to ensure that the agency is compliant with these new statutory requirements? And have you identified any additions?

Is the social cost of carbon a statutory part of NEPA?

I guess what I'm asking is that a statutory part or is that just what the administration is telling you to do?

That CEQ came back with right? Which is to elongate the projects, makes them more expensive, and in some ways, they're not getting done.

General Spellmon, you mentioned the challenges posed by the social cost of carbon to project development. Has the Interagency Working Group consulted you in the development of those figures? Have you had any input with their conversations with them about this?

We've been trying to find out how these costs are calculated what the cost is. So while you're looking at that, could you find out what figures you're using? Are they the same ones that the EPA is using in these regulations? And have you committed to the Interagency Working Group that the social cost of carbon is hindering your ability to meet your statutory guidelines under the NEPA process that we put into effect?

So you have a cost assigned there? Do you know what dollar figures are using the social cost of carbon? There is a dollar figure associated with this, right?

What is it? Do you know?”

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