H.R. 3634 · Where this bill is now
In committee
Introduced in the House, sent to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, May 29, 2025
What this bill does
In plain words · AI-written from the official summaryModernizes highway project environmental reviews
This bill asks the Department of Transportation to push for new digital tools in how highways get built. Specifically, it wants to encourage the use of interactive, cloud-based platforms and 3D digital models (called digital twins) when companies and organizations review environmental impacts of highway projects. DOT would also test this approach on at least 10 highway projects and create guidance to help other project sponsors use these same tools.
How it affects you
If you live near a planned highway project, this could mean you'll see more interactive, visual ways to understand what the project will look like and how it might affect your community. The bill itself doesn't require anything of individual people, but it could change how public input happens during the planning process by using digital models and online platforms instead of just traditional documents and meetings.
Read the official summary (Introduced in House, May 29, 2025)
Interactive Federal Review Act
This bill revises the environmental review process for federal-aid highway projects to encourage the use of certain digital platforms and models.
Specifically, the Department of Transportation (DOT) must encourage recipients of federal highway funding who are carrying out environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to utilize (1) interactive, digital, cloud-based platforms; and (2) high fidelity, three-dimensional digital models of infrastructure project elements, such as digital twins.
DOT must also select at least 10 federal-aid highway projects to demonstrate the use of these platforms and models in carrying out the environmental impact analysis and community engagement processes required under NEPA.
Further, DOT must publish technology-neutral best practice guidance to encourage sponsors of projects that receive federal funds from DOT to use these platforms and models in carrying out the environmental impact analysis and community engagement processes required under NEPA.
Written by AI (Claude) using only the official summary by the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress’s nonpartisan research staff. It can miss nuance, so check the official summary and the bill text for details.
1st SessionH. R. 3634
A BILL
Interactive Federal Review Act
Sponsor: Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD-At Large) · Introduced May 29, 2025 · Transportation and Public Works · 1 version of the text
Sources: Congress.gov actions and votes · bill text from GovInfo · latest official action May 30, 2025: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.”