# OpenAI — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI partner to accelerate federal permitting

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-02-26T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/pacific-northwest-national-laboratory
- Record: https://forck.live/items/260-pacific-northwest-national-laboratory-and-openai-partner-to-accelerate-federal

OpenAI announces a partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to introduce DraftNEPABench, a benchmark for evaluating AI coding agents in federal permitting, with potential to reduce NEPA drafting time by up to 15%.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/pacific-northwest-national-laboratory:

> OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduce DraftNEPABench, a new benchmark evaluating how AI coding agents can accelerate federal permitting—showing potential to reduce NEPA drafting time by up to 15% and modernize infrastructure reviews.

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