DraftNEPABench

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI Partner to Accelerate Federal Permitting with DraftNEPABench

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have introduced DraftNEPABench, a benchmark designed to evaluate AI coding agents on federal permitting tasks under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The benchmark demonstrates potential to reduce NEPA document drafting time by up to 15%. The collaboration targets modernization of infrastructure review processes through AI-assisted automation.