2025 Law and Policy

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Blueprint 2025 Comments re SPOT license proceeding 12/19/2019

CG/LA Infrastructure December 19, 2019 Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) http://www.regulations.gov Docket Number: EPA RO6-OAR-2019-0576-001,002 Subject: Substantive and Procedural Deficiencies The Blueprint 2025 Initiative is a collaboration among infrastructure professionals, leading infrastructure development companies and public sector project managers which advances and supports plans and policies to restore the U.S. position as the country with…Read More

Blueprint 2025 procedural note 1/20/2020

CG/LA Infrastructure March 5, 2019 Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) http://www.regulations.gov Docket Number: MARAD-2018-0114 Attention: Mr. Roddy C. Bachman, USCG, Roddy.C.Bachman@uscg.mil Mr. Wade Morefield, MARAD, Wade.Morefield@dot.gov Subject: MARAD-2018-0114. Request for inclusion in the public record and comments regarding EPA Proposed Procedures Dear Sirs: The Blueprint 2025 coalition recently became aware of the attached correspondence between…Read More

Blueprint 2025 follow-up note to EPA Administrator

January 20, 2020 http://www.regulations.gov Docket Number: EPA RO6-OAR-2019-0576-001,002 Dear Ms. Magee: As you know, this organization submitted comments regarding the above referenced matter. As we understand EPA’s applicable regulations, we are entitled to direct notice of any EPA final action and have thirty days from receipt in which to submit our appeal. Please confirm that…Read More

Blueprint 2025 Comments to MARAD re SPOT licensing proceeding 5/31/2020

CG/LA Infrastructure January 20, 2020 Melanie Magee USEPA REGION 6 1201 Elm Street Suite 500 Mail Code: ARPE Dallas, TX 75270-210 Magee.melanie@Epa.gov Via electronic mail Docket Number: EPA RO6-OAR-2019-0576-001,002 Dear Ms. Magee: As you know, this organization submitted comments regarding the above referenced matter. As we understand EPA’s applicable regulations, we are entitled to direct…Read More

Blueprint 2025 Comment re illegal guidance

CG/LA Infrastructure April 7, 2020 Re: Docket Number EPA RO6-OAR-219-0576-001,002 Andrew Wheeler EPA Administrator Wheeler.Andrew@epa.gov Ken McQueen Region 6 Administrator McQueen.ken@Epa.gov Dear Sirs: As you may be aware, Blueprint 2025, as part of its program to eliminate unnecessary impediments to the development of critical infrastructure projects, filed the attached comments in the above captioned EPA…Read More

2025 Comment re EPA Deepwater Port guidance

May 31, 2020 Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) http://www.regulations.gov Docket Number: MARAD-2019-0011 Attention: Ms. Yvette Fields; Mr. William Nabach Subject: Deepwater Port License Application: Spot Terminal Services LLC The Blueprint 2025 (“BP2025”) initiative was established in late 2015 as a collaboration among infrastructure professionals, leading infrastructure development companies and public sector project managers, to advance…Read More

2025 Commentary regarding recent revisions to OIRA review process

Jeffrey Robinson Jeff Robinson, Branch Chief Air Permits, Air Monitoring & Grants EPA Region 6 Robinson.Jeffrey@epa.gov Dear Mr. Robinson: Thanks very much for the attached letter. To follow up on our request to the Administrator, we are enclosing: 1. A copy of Administrator Barbara Blum’s Notice of Final Determination of Applicability regarding Exxon’s Platform Hondo…Read More

DOGE REDUX. Can Information Technology Save the Republic?

The modern world’s complexity and pace of change is challenging governments and their institutions. Management and decision-making processes in the U.S. and other democracies and constitutional republics may be simply too slow to allow the effective leadership necessary to survive in the competition among nations. Some believe that a transition towards dictatorships and autocracies is…Read More

Appalachian Hydrogen Hub – Phase 1 Virtual NEPA Scoping

RE: Appalachian Hydrogen Hub – Phase 1 NEPA Scoping Agency: Department of Energy Docket No. DOE-HQ-2024-0082 Comments of 2025 Law & Policy 2025 Law & Policy is an infrastructure policy advisory firm established during the first Trump Administration to work with The Blueprint 2025 Initiative to assist in what we hoped and expected to be…Read More

NOAA Deep Seabed Mining – Comments of Blueprint 2025

September 4, 2025 Mr. Kerry Kehoe Federal Consistency Specialist Office for Coastal Management, NOAA Attention: DSHMRA Proposed Rule Comments Docket No. 250630-0118 Comments of Blueprint 2025 Re: Deep Seabed Mining: Revisions to Regulations for Exploration License and Commercial Recovery Permit Applications AGENCIES: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PRECIS: President Trump’s April 29,…Read More