Environmental Review Improvement Fund

Congress provided $350 million to the Permitting Council’s Environmental Review Improvement Fund (ERIF), to modernize and improve permitting. Leveraging this funding, our agency established the ERIF Assistance Program to make high-impact, targeted investments in process improvements and tools that improve the permitting process for FAST-41 projects and advance permitting excellence.

The ERIF Assistance Program works to build capacity and tools across the federal permitting community to make the environmental review and authorization process more timely, efficient, and effective.