SPEED Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 3224 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3224 To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify ambiguous provisions and facilitate a more efficient, effective, and timely environmental review process, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 19, 2025 Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify ambiguous provisions and facilitate a more efficient, effective, and timely environmental review process, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act'' or the ``SPEED Act''. SEC. 2. NEPA REFORM. (a) Purposes; Intent; Effect.--Section 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321) is amended-- (1) by striking the section designation and heading and all that follows through ``are: To'' and inserting the following: ``SEC. 2. PURPOSES; INTENT; EFFECT. ``(a) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are to''; and (2) by adding at the end the following: ``(b) Intent.--This Act-- ``(1) is a procedural statute intended to ensure Federal agencies consider the environmental impacts of their actions during the decisionmaking process; ``(2) does not mandate particular results; and ``(3) only prescribes a purely procedural process. ``(c) Effect.--Nothing in this Act-- ``(1) mandates any specific environmental outcome or result; or ``(2) confers substantive rights or imposes substantive duties beyond procedural requireme