U.S. President Barack Obama on
Monday announced that four nationally and regionally significant
transportation projects will be expedited by streamlining project
review process.
The move, Obama administration's latest effort to speed up job
creation in the election year, was to put Americans to work and
replace aging infrastructure and improve the reliability and
resiliency of critical highway, transit and rail systems in U.S.
states of Maine, North Dakota, Oregon and Washington, the White
House said in a statement.
As part of a Presidential Executive Order issued in March of this
year, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was
charged with overseeing a government-wide effort to make the
permitting and review process for infrastructure projects more
efficient and effective.
"Across the country our investments in infrastructure are putting
people back to work building and modernizing our transit systems,
railroads, bridges and highways," said U.S. Transportation Secretary
Ray LaHood.
