HR 4776
Passed a chamber
Narrows federal environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act by limiting which effects agencies must consider, setting shorter review deadlines, and restricting how courts handle challenges to agency decisions.
Official title: SPEED Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
25-JUL-2025
Referred
25-JUL-2025
Approved by committee
20-NOV-2025
Reported
04-DEC-2025
On the calendar
04-DEC-2025
Passed
18-DEC-2025
Senate
Received
18-DEC-2025
- Declares the National Environmental Policy Act a purely procedural statute that does not require particular environmental outcomes.
- Limits agency reviews to effects that have a reasonably close causal relationship to the project and are not speculative or remote in time or place.
- Sets 60-day deadlines for application completeness decisions and 30-day deadlines for final agency action after an environmental impact statement or assessment, and requires agencies to review under other laws concurrently.
- Limits courts to remanding flawed agency actions without vacatur or injunction, and requires most challenges to be filed within 150 days after the action is made public.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Reported to House" (04-DEC-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 18-DEC-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
- Environment and Public Works Committee (Senate)
Environmental Protection
■ 7 R■ 7 D
7 Republicans
7 Democrats