‘Draining the swamp’ ongoing at Interior (what a laugh)

...More than 20 months after Trump took office, his cabinet members continue to gnaw away at the politics of politics, where stagnation many times is better that progress for those bureaucrats in office. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is not one for playing in the swamp. A former Navy Seal who served in the Middle East, there is no nonsense in his tall, lanky frame. That’s why when he talks of the bureaucracy in his Department, he doesn’t mince words. “Let’s say you wanted a permit to cross stream somewhere in the West,” Zinke said last Friday, addressing an audience at the Energy Innovation Center in Pittsburgh, at a program sponsored by the Consumer Energy Alliance. Kallanish Energy was in attendance. Zinke said to go through the proper channels to secure the needed permit, a developer would have to go through 13 different regulators, in various governmental departments – a system which costs time and certainly money. “It’s a structural issue, and we at Interior, are addressing it,” Zinke said. “We are aligning regions based on watersheds.”...MORE

Zinke continues to think this is a structural problem and he is dead wrong. Sure, you could design a better structure to more efficiently and effectively align personnel and allocate budgets, but that is not going to cure the bureaucratic stranglehold on our natural resources.

Let's say he does adopt ecosystem management, just the way the enviros have been after for years. Does that do away with NEPA? No, the entire NEPA process would still have to be completed, including administrative appeals and court challenges.

Here is the schematic BLM provides for their NEPA process:

The BLM Manual to carry all this out (H-1790-1) is 127 pages plus 11 appendices.
The CEQ regulations they must follow has 10,258 words.
Do any of these manuals or regulations change because personnel are placed based on ecosystems?
No.