The California bullet train authority has received federal permission to handle its own environmental reviews.
The California bullet train authority said earlier this year that federal bureaucrats have slow-walked approval of its environmental documents, contributing to delays in the project.
The approval comes after the Trump Administration delivered a sharp blow to the rail authority in May,that was issued in 2010. The FRA asserted that the state had violated its terms and was not making adequate progress. The rail authority had been seeking the approval for several years, because federal laws changed and allowed state rail projects to get the same authority as highway projects, said rail authority Chief Financial Officer Brian Annis. He said it isn’t clear what triggered the federal approval after such long delays.
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