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The bill increases transparency and applicant control over permit reviews—helping small businesses and homeowners plan and prompting agency accountability—while imposing new IT/administrative costs and privacy/risk trade-offs for agency staff and uneven burdens on smaller jurisdictions.
Small-business owners and homeowners get real-time per-application status and estimated timelines for permits, reducing uncertainty and helping them plan projects and investments.
Small-business owners and government contractors (and other applicants) can contact specific agency reviewers directly, improving communication and enabling faster resolution of questions and issues.
Taxpayers and applicants gain public transparency of permit processing times, creating accountability that may incentivize agencies to reduce delays.
Taxpayers and state/local governments will incur new administrative and IT costs to build, operate, and maintain per-application public status pages and related systems.
Federal employees (individual reviewers) may face increased harassment or privacy risks if required to have their contact details published.
Applicants and covered agencies may face unrealistic expectations and heightened administrative pressure when published estimated timelines prove inaccurate due to unforeseen review steps.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires federal permitting agencies to publish public webpages showing application stages, durations, current status, reviewer contacts, remaining steps, and estimated timelines.
Official title: Require certain agencies to include a page on the website of the agency relating to permit applications, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 13, 2025 by Richard Lynn Scott · Last progress May 13, 2025
Requires federal agencies that issue permits to publish and maintain an online permit-status webpage showing the status, timelines, contacts, and remaining steps for each permit application. The law defines covered agencies, permits and reviewing agencies, and lists the specific data elements each agency must display for every application. The public dashboard must include completed stages and their durations, the current status and time spent there, contact information for personnel handling the application, a description of remaining required steps, and an estimated timeline for a final decision.