Scenario description
Assume Congress does not enact the full Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 or a materially similar broad permitting bill by 2026-11-30, but does enact a narrower U.S. energy-permitting measure or attaches targeted permitting provisions to another signed federal law by that date. The binding changes cover a subset of the current permitting negotiations, such as only transmission siting, only pipelines, only mining or Rosemont-related mining approvals, only offshore-wind dispute provisions, only judicial-review deadlines for specified project classes, only endangered-species consultation changes, or only data-center energy-use reporting. The exact covered sectors, project classes, timelines, exclusions, and agency responsibilities are those specified in the enacted statute.