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Doug Burgum: “If there was things that would be considered, interesting…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Doug Burgum: Federal Government Must Increase Access To Public Lands 'As Opposed To Reducing It'

Published | Video Starts at 03:14

And there had been a lot of, I want to say, regulatory creep, if you will, over time that got out of the bounds of that. And so in the cases of how we're approaching this is that If there was things that would be considered, interesting suggestions for people to consider, but aren't part of what it takes to actually get the permit. We pulled the 80% of that growing and growing and growing forever regulation that was slowing down all kinds of projects, both on federal and private and state land, to push it into an appendix. So it's still there for people to take a look at. But then this can help both project opponents and project opponents understand that it's going to be litigated over … (03:14–03:47)

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Asserts that 80% of regulations slowing projects were moved to an appendix to streamline permitting.

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