# 119-hr-4776: SPEED Act

119-hr-4776, SPEED Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4] (R-AR); status passed_house (as of 2026-09-10).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-4776
- Congress: 119
- Title: SPEED Act
- Status: passed_house
- Introduced: 2025-07-25
- Sponsor: Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4] (R-AR)
- Cosponsors: 14
- Policy area: Environmental Protection
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-10

## Summary

**Streamlines NEPA reviews and speeds permitting by setting strict deadlines, narrowing what environmental effects can be considered, and tightening judicial review.** This law treats NEPA as a procedural checklist rather than a source of substantive rights. - Project applicants and developers get faster, more predictable decisions. Lead agencies must decide completeness within 60 days, decide the level of review within another 60 days after completeness, and issue a final agency action within 30 days after environmental documentation is done. Agencies may rely on prior state, tribal, or programmatic reviews and broaden categorical exclusions. - Courts and litigants face tighter limits on challenges and faster case schedules. Claims generally must be filed within 150 days, courts give substantial deference to agencies, remands include a 180-day correction deadline, trial courts must resolve matters within about 180 days after the record is filed, and appeals are due and decided within fixed short windows. - Tribes and environmental reviewers see narrower scopes and new constraints. Only parties who submitted substantive, unique comments can sue on that issue and tribes retain special standing for trust-resource actions but other review avenues are restricted.

## Cosponsors (14)

- Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2] (D-ME), 2025-07-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28] (D-TX), 2025-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Stauber, Pete [R-MN-8] (R-MN), 2025-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gonzalez, Vicente [D-TX-34] (D-TX), 2025-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large] (R-WY), 2025-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Baumgartner, Michael [R-WA-5] (R-WA), 2025-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8] (R-CO), 2025-09-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3] (D-WA), 2025-09-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Davis, Donald G. [D-NC-1] (D-NC), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1] (R-IA), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gray, Adam [D-CA-13] (D-CA), 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Begich, Nicholas J. [R-AK-At Large] (R-AK), 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21] (D-CA), 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kiggans, Jennifer A. [R-VA-2] (R-VA), 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z

## Votes

| Date | Chamber | Question | Result | Yea | Nay |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-12-18T00:00:00.000Z | house | On Motion to Recommit | Failed | 206 | 211 |
| 2025-12-18T00:00:00.000Z | house | On Passage | Passed | 221 | 196 |

## Provisions PRIA read

- Fewer outside lawsuits on tribal trust lands: benefit, low. This bill would shield many actions on tribal trust lands from outside NEPA lawsuits. Only the Tribe could bring a challenge, unless effects are reasonably foreseeable outside the trust lands. When a Tribe asks for an action on trust resources and a no‑action option was studied, agencies would pres…
- Faster agency deadlines for project approvals: mixed, medium. This bill would set strict timelines for project applications. Agencies would have 60 days to say if an application is complete or ask for more. Once complete, within 60 days they must say no further review, start an EIS, or require an EA. Lead agencies would invite likely cooperating agencies with…
- Faster court deadlines for environmental reviews: mixed, medium. This bill would speed court cases over federal environmental reviews by setting strict clocks. The agency record would be due within 60 days; trial courts and appeals would usually decide within 180 days. Lawsuits would need to be filed within 150 days of the final agency action. For actions with p…
- Narrower environmental reviews, less new research: mixed, medium. This bill would narrow what agencies consider in environmental reviews. They would count only effects closely caused by the project, not speculative or far‑off impacts. Agencies could reuse prior reviews or program studies when projects and effects are substantially the same, and they would run oth…
- Tighter limits on canceling permits: mixed, medium. This bill would make it hard for agencies to cancel or change project permits and approvals. They could act only for limited reasons: a court order, a material breach or legal violation, fraud, new specific imminent harm not reviewed, or at the holder's request. Agencies would need clear, convincin…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-4776 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4776)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4776 (as of 2026-09-10).