That's a good pun. I like that.
In other words, the regulators did their job in four days back in the 1970s, to allow for the safe construction of a big, beautiful building that has created hundreds of jobs over the decades. They did that in four days. Now it takes three years to do the very same thing.
You spent $600,000 on government to build this new facility. How many people could you have employed doing productive work for your company with that $600,000?