After getting 16 mining projects across the finish line, President Donald Trump’s point person on permitting is focused on jump-starting the approval of U.S. plants to process those minerals.
Emily Domenech, executive director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, told POLITICO’s E&E News that the Trump administration is eager to bring processing plants onto its FAST-41 dashboard.
There’s only one other “manufacturing” project on the dashboard, the Florida-based “Riverview East Stack Extension project,” which is slated to process phosphate ore into fertilizer products.
“We currently have one manufacturing, critical mineral manufacturing project, on the dashboard,” she said. “But I’d really like to see us add more projects in that sector to really help to build out this U.S.-based supply chain.”
