Subject: would you mind making a call to Christy Goldfuss at CEQ?
From: Dan Carol <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:05:12 -0400

Greetings John.

I am on the short list for a position directing the newly-forming, 13
agency Federal Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Council -- created by
Title 41 of the new infra bill (FAST) that passed late last year.

*This includes energy infrastructure projects as part of the mission and so
the Council, in the right hands, would be an enormous tool for clean energy
deployment* in tandem with whatever CPP authority exists.

Plus, i*t would be good to have the Council in the hands of someone focused
on** ensuring momentum and a running start for the next Administration by
readying a pipeline of major infrastructure projects for action in 2017*.
:)

*I would really appreciate it if you could weigh in with CEQ director
Christy Goldfuss on my behalf as soon as possible*, she and her team will
be deciding this along with NEC and OMB (where I already have support).

Here are some talking points to make it easy.

Thanks!!
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/17-governors-agree-to-pursue-clean-energy-goals/>
*Talking Points*

Dan Carol (short bio below) was a strong contributor to the 2008 campaign
and has been a major contributor to the Build America Infrastructure
Initiative that the Administration has been doing the last three years.  He
was also the founding chair of the innovative West Coast Infrastructure
Exchange which is now being replicated in other regions.

Dan is well-known to me for his work on the 1992 and 2008 campaigns and
since on clean energy.

*The new Council can play a critically important role in accelerating clean
energy deployment on behalf of the President's legacy despite EPA climate
legal delays*.

He knows the importance of NEPA and has been published on collaborative
land use and landscape policy innovation:

http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Land-Use-Conflicts-Management/dp/0822305607

We need an agency-neutral, grown up to come in and work with agencies and
outside stakeholders to realize the huge potential of the effort in
Administration's waning days and promote continuity of this
Congressionally-mandated effort to *ready **a new pipeline of projects for
quick action in 2017*.

Dan is at Georgetown University now but willing to come on now and serve;

***

Dan Carol is currently a Senior Advisor at Georgetown University where he
focuses on a portfolio of work to accelerate government innovation and
cross-sectoral partnerships.

A former Presidential Management Fellow, member of the Clinton Global
initiative, and senior campaign advisor to the Clinton-Gore 1992 and
Obama-Biden 2008 campaigns, Dan has worked in city, state, and the federal
government for three decades, most recently serving as the
first-in-nation Director of a Governor’s Office of Multi-State Initiatives
and founding chair of the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange, a 2015 winner
of the Harvard Ash Center award for government innovation.
Mr. Carol also served the Administration as a member of the US DOE State
Energy Advisory Board (2010-2013) and as an advisor for the creation of the
regional infrastructure permitting acceleration pilots that Obama announced
in February 2014 for the Pacific Northwest on energy and the Midwest on
drought relief.  He is the co-editor of Special Area Management: Case
Studies in Conflict Resolution and Landscape Planning (Duke University
Press)

my cell if needed: 541-337-7046