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hope of prevailing in court when (not if) a lawsuit is filed against the proposed action. This is not 

 right and it is not good. We need environmental laws that protect the environment, not laws that 

 simply gum up the works and impede progress at great expense to the agencies, deprive the Treasury 

 of needed revenue, and cost hard working Americans their jobs. 



In summary, Mr. Chairman, if you want to repair the appeals process, you must amend 

 NEPA. It must be rewritten so that it becomes a tool to protect the environment, not a club to 

 prevent action. 



Thank you very much. 



