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H.R. 4503119th CongressEnvironmental Protection
ePermit Act
Sponsored by Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) · 11 active : 5 Republicans, 6 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 9, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
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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.
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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.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Hearings by (full committee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Government information and archives
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Licensing and registrations
- Public contracts and procurement
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
11 activeShow all 11 cosponsors
- Scott H. Peters (D-CA-50)
- Jeff Crank (R-CO-5)
- Seth Magaziner (D-RI-2)
- Adam Gray (D-CA-13)
- Gabe Evans (R-CO-8)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA-41)
- Sharice Davids (D-KS-3)
- Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
- Jeff Hurd (R-CO-3)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
