PermitAI team delivers a one-stop shop for federal permitting data
The PermitAI team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has changed how federal agencies search past environmental permitting decisions. Now it is taking that access one step further with two newly released publicly available resources that give instant access to both past decisions and live government data. Together, they cover the full federal permitting life cycle.
The PermitAI team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has revolutionized access to federal permitting data by launching two new publicly available resources. The first is an upgraded National Environmental Policy Act database, NEPATEC3.0, which now includes rich visualizations such as map imagery and geospatial layers, making it the largest publicly available geo-enriched map repository of NEPA environmental review documents.
The second is the NEPA Model Context Protocol (NEPA-MCP), a fully open-source toolkit that provides live one-stop-shop environmental data from over 20 government sources. NEPA-MCP offers a single, easy-to-use interface for accessing live authoritative data for current federal reviews and rich resources for understanding legal jurisdiction, water, wildlife habitat, and other environmental resources for a proposed project area.
These enhancements support environmental policy research and analysis, increased understanding of permitting processes, high-level categorization, filtering, integration with other datasets, and rich visualization of project locations to inform the review of future projects.
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