PA DEP Expands Pay-More-and-Get-Your-Permit-on-Time Service

Environment-related permitting in Pennsylvania, overseen by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), has been a hot mess for years. A Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation permit sometimes takes two, three, or even six months for approval, instead of the policy-mandated 14 days. The DEP announced last November that it would "soon" implement the SPEED (Streamlining Permits for Economic Expansion and Development) program to speed up the permit approval process (see PA DEP Claims Permit Backlog for O&G Now Completely Eliminated). The agency, in typical government bureaucratic efficiency, finally launched the program in July (see PA DEP Starts Pay-More-and-Get-Your-Permit-on-Time Service). The DEP announced it is now growing the program to include other types of permits.

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