First-ever Manufacturing Project Gains FAST-41 Coverage
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Permitting Council Press Office (media@permitting.gov)
WASHINGTON (July 22, 2025) – The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) is pleased to announce the FAST-41 coverage of the Riverview East Stack Extension Project. The $260 million project is the first-ever FAST-41 covered manufacturing project, and if permitted will play a key role in food production nationwide.
“I am excited to welcome the Riverview East Stack Extension project to FAST-41 coverage,” said Emily Domenech, Permitting Council Executive Director. “Ensuring that the U.S. and our partners abroad have the ability to grow the produce needed to feed individuals across borders is an essential need, and one that will benefit greatly from the innovative and accountable FAST-41 process.”
Located in Hillsborough County, Florida, the project aims to process phosphate ore to manufacture sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, fluorosilicic acid, and ammoniated phosphate fertilizer products. The purpose of the project is to extend Mosaic Fertilizer LLC’s facilities to provide the storage capacity needed to maintain current production levels until the end of life of the Riverview Fertilizer Manufacturing Plant. Mosaic Fertilizer is the country’s largest domestic supplier of phosphate crop nutrients, supplying over half of America’s annual requirements.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serves as the lead agency for this project. Learn more about the Riverview East Stack Extension project on the Federal Permitting Dashboard. Learn more about the Permitting Council at permitting.gov.
About the Permitting Council and FAST-41
Established in 2015 by Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41), the Permitting Council is a federal agency charged with improving the transparency and predictability of the federal environmental review and authorization process for certain critical infrastructure projects. The Permitting Council is comprised of the Permitting Council Executive Director, who serves as the Council Chair; 13 federal agency Council members (including deputy secretary-level designees of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Army, Commerce, Interior, Energy, Transportation, Defense, Homeland Security, and Housing and Urban Development, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chairs of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation); and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The Permitting Council coordinates federal environmental reviews and authorizations for projects that seek and qualify for FAST-41 coverage. FAST-41 covered projects are entitled to comprehensive permitting timetables and transparent, collaborative management of those timetables on the Federal Permitting Dashboard. FAST-41 covered projects may be in the energy production, electricity transmission, energy storage, surface transportation, aviation, ports and waterways, water resource, broadband, pipelines, manufacturing, mining, carbon capture, semiconductors, artificial intelligence and machine learning, high-performance computing and advanced computer hardware and software, quantum information science and technology, data storage and data management, and cybersecurity sectors.
The Permitting Council also serves as a federal center for permitting excellence, supporting federal efforts to improve infrastructure permitting including and beyond FAST-41 covered projects to the extent authorized by law, including activities that promote or provide for the efficient, timely, and predictable completion of environmental reviews and authorizations for federally-authorized infrastructure projects.
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Last Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2025