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# 2025 Law and Policy

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- [OIRA Comments - MTVLO 4/20/2026](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/oira-comments-mtvlo-4-20-2026/) - 2025 LAW AND POLICY, LLC 2025 Law and Policy llc 2550 M Street NW Washington, DC 20037 T: 1 202 775 2025 2025@2025lawandpolicy.com http://2025llc.com April 20, 2026 The Honorable Lee Zeldin, Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004 Re: Vessel Loading Operations: Technology Review Docket EPA-HQ-OAR 2025-0207; RIN 2060-AW22 Dear
- [Back to the Future](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/back-to-the-future/) - How AI Can Help Fix the Balance of Power in Washington — and Make Government Work Better for Everyone. A Policy Note. Over the last several decades our government has grown a powerful "Fourth Branch" --an “administrative state" comprised of federal agencies. To an increasing extent, these agencies have been operating independently of the Executive
- [Blueprint 2025 Comments re SPOT license proceeding 12/19/2019](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [Blueprint 2025 procedural note 1/20/2020](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [Blueprint 2025 follow-up note to EPA Administrator](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [Blueprint 2025 Comments to MARAD re SPOT licensing proceeding 5/31/2020](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [Blueprint 2025 Comment re illegal guidance](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [2025 Comment re EPA Deepwater Port guidance](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [2025 Commentary regarding recent revisions to OIRA review process](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [DOGE REDUX. Can Information Technology Save the Republic?](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [Re: BOEM Request for Information and Interest — Commercial Leasing for Outer Continental Shelf Minerals Offshore the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (RFI)](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/re-boem-request-for-information-and-interest-commercial-leasing-for-outer-continental-shelf-minerals-offshore-the-commonwealth-of-the-northern-mariana-islands-rfi/) - Jan 6, 2025 Department of the Interior Agency/Docket Number: No. BOEM-2025-0351 Document Citation: 90 FR 58052 Document Number: 2025-2833 Re: BOEM Request for Information and Interest — Commercial Leasing for Outer Continental Shelf Minerals Offshore the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (RFI) Precis The following comments address the above-referenced notice to assess its conformity
- [Appalachian Hydrogen Hub – Phase 1 Virtual NEPA Scoping](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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
- [NOAA Deep Seabed Mining – Comments of Blueprint 2025](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/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,
- [Doge Dead? No. Just Evolving – 7/27/25](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/doge-dead-no-just-evolving-7-27-25/) - July 27, 2025 DOGE dead? No. Just evolving. Hooray! Since its beginning in 2016, Blueprint 2025 has advocated a basic change in the way our government operates. Government processes must be digitalized so that decisions can be data driven and AI assisted, outcomes can be reliably predicted, effects can be monitored to allow continuous fine
- [Expediting and improving NEPA reviews – Blueprint 2025 Comments – 1/7/2025](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/expediting-and-improving-nepa-reviews-blueprint-2025-comments-1-7-2025/) - January 7, 2025 Comments of Blueprint 2025 RE: Appalachian Hydrogen Hub – Phase 1 Virtual NEPA Scoping Meeting AGENCY: Department of Energy Docket No. DOE-HQ-2024-0082 The Blueprint 2025 (“BP2025”) initiative is a collaboration among infrastructure professionals, leading infrastructure development companies and public and private sector project managers, which supports plans and policies to restore the
- [Expediting and improving NEPA reviews – Summary of oral remarks – Continuing the Trump I Initiative – 1/20/2025](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/expediting-and-improving-nepa-reviews-summary-of-oral-remarks-continuing-the-trump-i-initiative-1-20-2025/) - RE: Appalachian Hydrogen Hub – Phase 1 Virtual NEPA Scoping Meeting AGENCY: Department of Energy Docket No. DOE-HQ-2024-0082 This is a summary of the oral remarks presented by Blueprint 2025 at the above referenced scoping conference: The two main conclusions were: • Available digital and analytical technologies clearly can expedite and radically improve the environmental
- [Financing public infrastructure by leveraging private investments – 1/22/2025](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/financing-public-infrastructure-by-leveraging-private-investments-1-22-2025/) - 2550 M Street NW Washington, DC 20005 jgarbuckle@2025lawandpolicy.com anand@sinfpi.org January 22, 2025 A Note from Blueprint 2025 and The Strategic Infrastructure Performance Institute Financing Public Infrastructure – The Trump I Precedent U.S. Infrastructure development policies historically have relied heavily on federal funding and federal-level oversight as the primary driving forces for development of needed public
- [Reducing red tape – Perspectives on the Trump – Musk kickoff – 1/29/2025](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/reducing-red-tape-perspectives-on-the-trump-musk-kickoff-1-29-2025/) - 2025 LAW AND POLICY Blueprint 2025 2550 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037; T: 202-775-2025; Text: 303-656-3838 “Reinventing Government” -- Blueprint 2025 Perspectives on the Trump/Musk Kickoff “Reinventing Government” is not a new idea. The Clinton-Gore Administration announced an initiative solabelled some years ago. Despite considerable fanfare, however, inertia prevailed at that time and the
- [Comments re DOGE Caucus Announcement](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/comments-re-doge-caucus-announcement/) - February 5, 2025 Senator Joni Ernst Via Facsimile: 202-224-9369 Dear Senator Ernst: Blueprint 2025 is an informal initiative established in 2016 to give voice to a longstanding network of Infrastructure Professionals who saw an Administration led by a businessman President, without preconceived attitudes, as an opportunity to refocus what they believed to be an outmoded
- [Hearing March 11, 2025 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/hearing-march-11-2025-u-s-house-of-representatives-committee-on-oversight-and-government-reform-subcommittee-on-government-operations/) - Congressman Pete Sessions 2157 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Congressman Kweisi Mfume 2263 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515 RE: Hearing March 11, 2025 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations Shifting Gears: Moving from Recovery to Prevention of Improper Payments and Fraud Dear Congressmen: The Blueprint
- [DOGE – Redux – Blueprint 2025 Commentary After – 100 days](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/doge-redux-blueprint-2025-commentary-after-100-days/) - Blueprint 2025’s comments on (1) President Trump’s Executive Order which established the DOGE and (2) the process by which it has been carried out have gone from positive to negative. This is not because of the Order or its vision, but, rather, because of the blunt, ham-handed and unsophisticated way in which it has been
- [Musk Leaves Ashes – Are We Coming to a Phoenix Yet?](https://2025lawandpolicy.com/musk-leaves-ashes-are-we-coming-to-a-phoenix-yet/) - When Infrastructure professionals saw President Trump’s Executive Order creating the DOGE and appointing Elon Musk to head it, many of us were elated. Finally, they were doing what we have been asking for years—installing digital infrastructure, digitalizing management systems, driving them with data and creating robust data-driven management capacity in essentially all agencies. The text

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