Having worked on software to track the mountain of paperwork for NEPA compliance of road projects I agree. But, I would expand it to just say bureaucracy or over-regulation. We can't build a damn thing without getting approval or licenses from multiple agencies after satisfying their every whim. Every regulation doesn't just make the project cost more. We are also paying for the administration and enforcement of those regulations. We pay on both sides when it is a State DOT doing the project. Residents of the State pay for staff to make sure they are satisfying all the NEPA requirements and Federal staff to make sure that the State DOT is in compliance.
In other words, every infrastructure project is required to prove that they are not harming habitats or disturbing native cultural sites or any of the myriad other types of sites that are protected.