The Acceleration Zone Compact
A first-in-a-generation interstate pact that empowers states to slash red tape, attract capital, and reignite American industry—without waiting on Washington gridlock.
What is an Interstate Compact?
Interstate Compacts are the same tool that lets you drive across state lines with one license and ensures the Colorado River reaches California can now unlock American industrial renewal.
How? The Constitution explicitly empowers states to form binding agreements that, with Congressional approval, override conflicting federal and state laws. It's how we've solved interstate challenges for over 200 years, for everything from transportation to emergency response. The Acceleration Zone Compact simply applies this proven mechanism to our building crisis: creating zones where America can build at the speed of business, not bureaucracy.
How the Compact Ignites Growth
States Lead
State legislatures pass the AZC just like any other bill. No constitutional conventions. No federal mandates. 12 states are already drafting legislation for 2025.
Built on Existing Authority
The AZC leverages congressional consent that's already in place, enabling federal regulatory reforms without waiting for new legislation. The green light exists, and states just need to use it.
Communities Build
From governor's signature to groundbreaking in months, not years. Local communities and greenfield developers apply to create zones. Private operators bring the capital. A new semiconductor fab, biotech campus, or affordable housing district rises where empty fields or abandoned factories once stood.
Why Acceleration Zones?
A new engine of broad-based prosperity—built on competition, choice, and community self-determination.
High-Wage Jobs Near Home
The average manufacturing job pays $88,000/year. Acceleration Zones will bring thousands of these jobs back to American towns. Your kids can build careers without leaving their communities.
Startup-Speed Government
In Estonia, you can start a business in 15 minutes online. In most of America, it takes weeks of paperwork and multiple agency visits. Acceleration Zones bring speed and transparency to governance with every permit digitized, every rule transparent, every fee predictable.
Unleash Frontier Industries
Drones, modular nuclear, biotech, defense innovation, hardtech manufacturing, advanced sensors, mining and exploration. These industries are ready to build in America but trapped in regulatory limbo. Acceleration Zones give them a clear path to launch, test, and scale.
Regulatory Reset
Obsolete rules are cleared away, replaced by modern standards benchmarked to best-in-class global practice.
Community Choice
Zones are opt-in and locally governed—citizens decide whether, where, and how much change they want.
Made-in-America Supply Chains
Near-shored production strengthens national security and lowers emissions by shortening logistics routes.
AZ vs. Status Quo
Permit Approval Times
4-7 years
4-7 months
Regulatory Volume
~185,000 pages of rules
Optimized regulation designed for innovation and prosperity
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