Permitting Council Executive Director Releases Quarterly Member Agency Performance Report
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Permitting Council Press Office (media@permitting.gov)
WASHINGTON (September 30, 2025) – Today, the Permitting Council Executive Director released the fiscal year 2025 third quarter (April-June 2025) report to Congress, evaluating federal agency compliance with FAST-41 requirements. The report showcases continued expansion of the project portfolio, with 18 percent growth in covered projects compared to the preceding quarter.
“I am pleased to release this quarterly report, as it provides a powerful snapshot of the work undertaken by the Permitting Council in just the first few months of the Trump Administration,” said Emily Domenech, Permitting Council Executive Director. “The significant growth in FAST-41 covered projects demonstrates the Permitting Council’s steadfast commitment to executing the president’s mission to streamline permitting and advance economy building projects that will aid us in unleashing America’s full potential.”
Of the 40 FAST-41 covered projects managed by Permitting Council agencies during the third quarter of 2025, eight were new projects:
Castle Mountain Mine Phase 2 Project: The project proposes to expand an open-pit and heap leach gold and silver mine in the eastern Mojave Desert of California, approximately 60 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Crownpoint / Church Rock Uranium Project: The project proposes to construct and operate an in-situ uranium recovery facility utilizing existing Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed wellfields at Crownpoint and Church Rock, located in McKinley County, northwestern New Mexico.
Grants Precision ISR Project: The project proposes to build and operate a uranium extraction and processing facility combining in-situ recovery and horizontal wells in northwestern New Mexico, along the border of Cibola and McKinley counties.
Graphite Creek Project: The proposed project is an open pit mine to extract graphite ore and produce a graphite concentrate, primarily for battery and energy storage markets, located 37 miles north of Nome, Alaska.
Hell's Kitchen Critical Minerals & Power: The proposed project, located southeast of the Salton Sea, Calipatria, California, would convert geothermal brine into steam to generate electrical energy and convert the dissolved lithium into battery-grade lithium hydroxide and/or lithium carbonate for the battery industry.
La Jara Mesa Project: The project proposes to develop underground uranium mining and surface support facilities in the Cibola National Forest, approximately 10 miles northeast of Grants, New Mexico.
Royal Slope Power Transmission Line Project: The project proposes to construct, operate, and maintain 230-kilovolt electrical power transmission lines and associated access roads on Bureau of Reclamation-administered land, serving electricity users in Grant County, Washington.
Santee Sioux Tribe Water Capacity and Infrastructure Improvements: The project would construct a 31-mile water transmission line, along with necessary infrastructure, to deliver clean and reliable water to the Santee Sioux Nation located in Knox County, Nebraska.
Of the 27 transparency projects in the portfolio, two completed federal permitting during the third quarter of 2025: 3PL Railroad Valley Exploration Project and Amelia A&B.
Report highlights include:
Agencies reviewed and satisfied the requirements for updating coordinated project plans for all but one applicable project on the dashboard.
Of the 34 milestones scheduled to be completed during the quarter, agencies completed 7, agencies extended 23, and the remaining 4 were associated with a project that was paused during the quarter.
The quarterly report is now available 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, September 30, 2025