1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

CITIZEN PETITION FOR THE SUBTERRANEAN INFRASTRUCTURE ACCOUNTABILITY AND GRID PROTECTION ACT TO: The Houses of Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and State/Local Zoning Authorities. Preamble & Statement of Intent We, the undersigned citizens, raise an urgent alarm regarding the unchecked, unmonitored expansion of massive, utility-scale subterranean excavation projects and private, deep-earth infrastructure networks by ultra-wealthy individuals and their private corporate entities (including, but not limited to, The Boring Company, xAI, and Meta). Under the guise of standard commercial development—such as "AI Data Centers" and transit loops—private actors are utilizing corporate shielding to construct massive, self-sufficient enclaves and subterranean safehouses. These projects operate completely outside public utility grids, drain vital community resources, threaten local water tables, bypass democratic municipal oversight, and exploit labor with hazardous, non-compliant working conditions. Private property rights do not grant individuals the right to compromise public safety, deplete shared resources, or construct hidden parallel societies. We demand immediate legislative intervention, comprehensive federal and state investigations, and strict regulatory enforcement. SECTION 1: MANDATORY INVESTIGATIONS (Closing the Corporate Shield Loophole) We demand that Congress and federal regulatory bodies immediately exercise their subpoena and oversight powers to audit all private domestic excavation projects exceeding a depth of 30 feet or a total footprint of 10,000 square feet to investigate: • Corporate Asset Misuse: A full forensic financial audit determining whether private tech entities are illegally utilizing corporate funds and tax write-offs meant for commercial infrastructure (such as cloud data hosting) to construct unapproved private luxury survival safehouses for corporate executives. • Total Transparency of Subsurface Blueprints: The immediate stripping of overbroad Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) forced upon vendors, local officials, and contractors, mandating that all subsurface geological impacts, structural footprints, and utility designs be made part of the accessible public record. SECTION 2: CODIFYING ILLEGALITY (Airtight Statutory Bans) We demand the immediate drafting and passage of federal and state statutes to outlaw the subversion of public infrastructure: • Ban on Closed-Loop Utility Enclaves: It shall be illegal for any private entity or commercial facility to construct or operate a utility-scale, self-sufficient backup power grid (including private nuclear micro-reactors or high-output turbine farms) or independent water-pumping operation that is entirely untethered from, and un-supportive of, the surrounding public municipal grid. • Subsurface Residential Zoning Restrictions: Local and state zoning frameworks must be amended to place strict structural caps on residential digging. No private residential estate shall be permitted to construct subterranean facilities that mimic the power, data, and security capacities of military-grade fortresses without mandatory, transparent public hearings and majority community approval. • Abolition of Private "Company Towns": Legally ban private corporations from establishing self-policed, privately zoned corporate enclaves. All land, regardless of sole billionaire ownership, must remain fully subject to the zoning laws, environmental standards, and law enforcement jurisdiction of the local elected county or municipality. SECTION 3: RE-ENFORCEMENT AND TEETH (Empowering the Regulators) A law without enforcement is a suggestion. We demand that federal and state agencies immediately deploy their existing regulatory powers as a defensive shield against predatory drilling: • Zero-Tolerance Environmental Enforcement: We demand the EPA and state departments of environmental quality issue immediate "Stop Work" injunctions against any infrastructure project cited for repeated environmental violations—specifically regarding the unpermitted dumping of industrial wastewater, mismanagement of stormwater runoff, or drilling that compromises shallow, community-shared drinking water aquifers. • Mandatory OSHA Deep-Earth Inspections: We demand that OSHA establish an aggressive, unannounced safety inspection regime for all subterranean tunneling sites to protect laborers from documented chemical grout burns, heavy machinery negligence, and dangerous working hours hidden from public view. • Municipal Grid Prerogative: We call upon all local county commissioners and city councils to exercise their absolute legal right to deny water lines, sewage connections, and massive electrical draw permits to any tech entity whose private data infrastructure or excavation footprint threatens to deplete or destabilize the community's public resources. Conclusion The public grid, the water we drink, the safety of laborers, and the transparency of our communities belong to the people—not to the highest corporate bidder. We sign this petition to demand that our representatives strip away the legal loopholes, aggressively investigate what is being built beneath our feet, and enforce the law equally upon all citizens, no matter their wealth.