U.S. House of Representatives aims to streamline fab projects after passing bill to ease federal environmental permits

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Update: President Joe Biden enacted the new legislation on Oct. 3.

The U.S. House has passed a bill that frees certain fab projects from federal environmental permits, aiming to speed up the building of domestic chip factories, reports Bloomberg. This legislation, now awaiting President Joe Biden's approval, seeks to support a $400 billion investment in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing pledged by various chipmakers thanks to the U.S. CHIPS Act, while easing some of the regulatory delays associated with environmental reviews. 

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Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.