The timeline’s Slower / Typical / Faster control does not pull live agency clocks. Each review in rule set carries three duration estimates, in days, and a tag for where that number came from. Faster uses the low column, Typical the middle, Slower the high. The large day count on the timeline is the longest path, not the sum of every row. Reviews that can run in parallel do.
Statutory clock written into regulation
Agency figure published by an agency, not a statutory maximum
Assumption planning estimate encoded in the rule set
Statutory clock. ESA Section 7 formal consultation is 90 / 135 / 300 days. The typical 135 is 50 CFR 402.14 — 90 days to conclude consultation, 45 days to issue the biological opinion. The slow band (300) is the rule set’s allowance for tolling and biological assessment revision, not a second statutory number. Nevada’s well completion report is a 60-day filing clock, not a gate.
Published agency figure. NEPA environmental assessment, ESA informal consultation, and geothermal drilling permit approval. These are numbers agencies publish, not scraped from a docket for Dixie Valley.
Stated assumption. Citations on those rows name the statute or regulation that creates the review. They do not, by themselves, supply the days.
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Categorical exclusions. If a CE applies, it suppresses the NEPA environmental assessment and decision rows.
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The same rows, with triggers and prerequisites, are on the timeline under Rule set. The range under the typical total is this table’s low and high columns run on the current conditions, not a confidence interval from a model.
