Delaware governor orders updates to permitting accelerator and public publication
Gov. Matt Meyer has issued an executive order authorizing updates to the Delaware Permitting Accelerator and requiring the updated program to be published.
Executive Order 23, issued July 26, 2026, amends Executive Order 18. The directive is addressed to the heads of all Delaware state departments and agencies, making it a statewide executive-branch action rather than a legislative measure or a completed agency rulemaking.
The governor’s 2026 executive-order archive lists the order as concerning the Delaware Permitting Accelerator. The official order summary says the action authorizes updates to that accelerator and requires publication of the updated version.
What the order does
The order changes the administrative framework established by Executive Order 18 by allowing updates to the permitting accelerator. It also establishes a disclosure requirement: once updated, the accelerator must be published.
The available official materials do not provide a full list of the updates authorized under Executive Order 23. They do not identify individual permit types, projects or industries that would be covered by the changes.
Nor does the official summary state how the publication requirement will be carried out, such as the format or location of the published accelerator. The supplied materials do not set out a deadline for agencies to complete the updates or publish the revised program.
Statewide agency direction
Because the order is directed to the heads of all state departments and agencies, its scope reaches across Delaware’s executive branch. The action concerns the way state agencies coordinate and disclose permitting processes, according to the order’s stated subject and requirements.
Permit applicants, businesses, local governments and state regulators could be affected by the updated framework, depending on the contents of the changes and how agencies implement them. The current official summary, however, does not quantify the number of permits, agencies or applicants affected.
The order itself should not be read as evidence that any particular project will move faster. The available materials authorize updates to the accelerator but do not document an outcome for a named project or permit application.
What remains unknown
Executive Order 23 is an executive action that amends a prior order; the supplied official material does not describe it as a new law, a legislative vote or a court decision. No vote totals, appropriations or funding amounts are identified in the available sources.
The materials also do not describe the action as deregulation, and they do not state that it reduces environmental review or any other review requirement. Those questions would depend on the specific updates and subsequent agency implementation records, which are not included in the official summary provided.
For now, the confirmed next step is publication of the updated Delaware Permitting Accelerator. Executive Order 23 requires that publication, but the available official information does not give a date by which it must occur.
The order appears in the Office of Governor Matt Meyer’s 2026 executive-order archive, which records its approval date as July 26, 2026. That archive and the order page provide the presently available official record of the directive’s stated purpose: updating and publishing the Delaware Permitting Accelerator.
Sources
- Executive Order #23, Office of Governor Matt Meyer
- Executive Orders Archive — 2026, Office of Governor Matt Meyer
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