Full Title: Smarter, Cleaner, Faster Infrastructure Task Force: Policy Recommendations
Author(s): Julián Castro, John Delaney, Colette Honorable, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Bill Truex
Publisher(s): Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC)
Publication Date: May 10, 2021
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Description (excerpt):
These policy recommendations from the Smarter, Cleaner, Faster Infrastructure Task Force will be the first in a series building off of the principles released by the Task Force, which explained why we need to build clean infrastructure at a pace that is much quicker than we have historically built. The faster we can build, the better the outcomes for our climate, for jobs, and for economic growth. This set of recommendations focuses on two policy areas crucial to accelerating the deployment of clean infrastructure. Part 1 outlines general “good government” policy recommendations for improving agency processes for reviewing and approving projects. The framework of these recommendations is intended to accelerate clean infrastructure projects, but many of these recommendations are equally applicable to all infrastructure projects and we should carry over lessons learned from these improvements to all project reviews going forward. Part 2 describes several policy options for “bigger and bolder” thinking to move past the current conventions of project-by-project approvals to quickly and creatively deliver nationally significant and climate-critical projects. Part 2 also describes a new program to create incentives for states to incorporate clean infrastructure planning and investment into their decarbonization strategies.