diff --git a/lib/file_tree.js b/lib/file_tree.js
index fdd5b247afb..a84150ae292 100644
--- a/lib/file_tree.js
+++ b/lib/file_tree.js
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ import { sortObject } from './sort_object.js';
 import { validate } from './validate.js';
 
 // JSON
-import treesJSON from '../config/trees.json' assert {type: "json"};
-const trees = treesJSON.trees
-import categoriesSchemaJSON from '../schema/categories.json' assert {type: "json"};
+import treesJSON from '../config/trees.json';
+const trees = treesJSON.trees;
+import categoriesSchemaJSON from '../schema/categories.json';
 
 
 // The code in here
diff --git a/lib/matcher.js b/lib/matcher.js
index 79601aa5366..1a04c4e3a08 100644
--- a/lib/matcher.js
+++ b/lib/matcher.js
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ import whichPolygon from 'which-polygon';
 import { simplify } from './simplify.js';
 
 // JSON
-import matchGroupsJSON from '../config/matchGroups.json' assert {type: "json"};
-import genericWordsJSON from '../config/genericWords.json' assert {type: "json"};
-import treesJSON from '../config/trees.json' assert {type: "json"};
+import matchGroupsJSON from '../config/matchGroups.json';
+import genericWordsJSON from '../config/genericWords.json';
+import treesJSON from '../config/trees.json';
 
 const matchGroups = matchGroupsJSON.matchGroups;
 const trees = treesJSON.trees;
diff --git a/lib/write_file_with_meta.js b/lib/write_file_with_meta.js
index b22dac27aaf..51607c4e8d9 100644
--- a/lib/write_file_with_meta.js
+++ b/lib/write_file_with_meta.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import fs from 'node:fs';
 import JSON5 from 'json5';
 
 // JSON
-import packageJSON from '../package.json'  assert {type: "json"};
+import packageJSON from '../package.json';
 
 const URLRoot = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/main';
 
diff --git a/scripts/build_features.js b/scripts/build_features.js
index 454e399537e..b1fe482781b 100644
--- a/scripts/build_features.js
+++ b/scripts/build_features.js
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ import stringify from '@aitodotai/json-stringify-pretty-compact';
 import { writeFileWithMeta } from '../lib/write_file_with_meta.js';
 
 // JSON
-import geojsonSchemaJSON from '../schema/geojson.json' assert {type: "json"};
-import featureSchemaJSON from '../schema/feature.json' assert {type: "json"};
+import geojsonSchemaJSON from '../schema/geojson.json';
+import featureSchemaJSON from '../schema/feature.json';
 
 const Validator = jsonschema.Validator;
 let v = new Validator();
diff --git a/scripts/build_index.js b/scripts/build_index.js
index 802cee40e13..c6e035831a6 100644
--- a/scripts/build_index.js
+++ b/scripts/build_index.js
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ import { writeFileWithMeta } from '../lib/write_file_with_meta.js';
 const matcher = new Matcher();
 
 // JSON
-import treesJSON from '../config/trees.json'  assert {type: "json"};
+import treesJSON from '../config/trees.json';
 const trees = treesJSON.trees;
 
 // We use LocationConflation for validating and processing the locationSets
-import featureCollectionJSON from '../dist/featureCollection.json' assert {type: "json"};
+import featureCollectionJSON from '../dist/featureCollection.json';
 const loco = new LocationConflation(featureCollectionJSON);
 
 console.log(colors.blue('-'.repeat(70)));