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H.R. 4503 · 119th Congress

ePermit Act

Introduced Jul 17, 2025Policy area: Environmental Protection

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: Passed House

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Law

Latest action

: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Summary

ePermit Act

This bill establishes requirements related to digitizing environmental reviews conducted under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) must develop, publish, and iteratively update data standards for the collection and curation of certain data related to environmental reviews. CEQ must also design, test, and build prototype tools for environmental reviews.

Additionally, CEQ must publish guidance to assist relevant agencies in implementing such standards as well as certain minimum functional requirements, such as data sharing that enables automated transfer of relevant data among federal agencies. Federal agencies responsible for environmental reviews or authorizations must implement the data standards and such minimum functional requirements.

To the maximum extent practicable, CEQ and such agencies must iteratively develop and maintain a unified interagency data system consisting of interconnected federal agency systems and shared services for environmental reviews and authorizations, including a common interactive, digital, cloud-based authorization portal.

Within a year, CEQ must oversee a pilot of shared services for environmental reviews and authorizations, including the portal. To the maximum extent practicable, CEQ must develop and implement the unified interagency data system by December 1, 2027.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. Senate

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

  2. House

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. House

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5088-5091)

  4. House

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4503.

  5. House

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5088-5091)

  6. House

    Mr. Crank moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  7. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 341.

  8. House

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-392.

  9. House

    Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent.

  10. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  11. House

    Committee Hearings Held

  12. House

    Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Show 1 earlier actions

  1. Introduced in House