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On the Perils of Hasty Drafting

An image of the U.S. Capitol Building in the evening.

The Debt Ceiling Bill was written under intense time pressure. It shows!

Someone asked me how the new bill defines what kinds of projects have enough federal involvement to require an environmental assessment.  I thought I knew the answer. But when I looked carefully at the bill’s language, I realized that it actually can’t mean what I thought it did. In fact, it’s so badly written that …

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