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VT
October 2014: Air Quality & Climate Division Facility Information Sharing
The Air Quality and Climate Division (AQCD) monitors air quality and air pollution sources, proposes regulations to improve existing air quality, ensures compliance with the regulations, and issues permits to control pollution from sources of air contaminants across the state. Three sections of AQCD manage facility data for 200+ common facilities. This information was stored in program specific databases which makes finding the relevant information about a particular facility difficult and time consuming.
VT
October 2014: Public Notice
The Department currently has public notice processes for 85 different permits. Nearly all have unique federal or state-required processes that result in inconsistent notice and comment periods for even permits that address the same project. This can cause an applicant and the public to be confused as to how to effectively participate in the process. Additionally, the inconsistent requirements increase DEC costs and create administrative inefficiency i.e. staff is required to provide multiple/different notice types and may be required to attend multiple public informational meetings for a project.
VT
October 2014: Receipts Processing
In 2014, the Department received over $11 million in receipts including payments for numerous fees and registrations, loan repayments, enforcement fines and penalties, laboratory sampling billings, and court ordered settlements. In most cases, divisions and their respective programs received those receipts (mainly in the form of checks) directly from the U.S. mail to their specific division/program for initial processing and handling. With a lack of standard operating procedures, this led to some inconsistency between programs and caused delays in processing time.
VT
Permit Performance Standards
In 1987, the Legislature established an annual report to track fees collected by each permit program, the average number of days required to issue each permit, whether DEC’s permit fees cover DEC’s permit costs, and recommendations for improving performance. This report is commonly referred to as the PEP report. Guidelines for calculating “DEC days” are contained in DEC’s 1996 Permit Review Procedure. Over the years, inconsistencies within the report have developed. DEC provides data on some permit programs but not all, for no apparent reason. The calculation of “DEC days” varies from program to program, despite the procedure adopted in 1996. Some programs find the report useful and relevant, others do not.
VT
Permit to Construct a Public Water System
The Public Water Construction Permitting Program is experiencing a backlog of public water system construction permits. There are inconsistencies in the process and lack of clarity on roles and responsibilities between the technical and administrative staff. There has been considerable turnover in staff over the last 5 years and the program has been under resourced for decades. New federal regulations have increased permitting demands on the program and technical services provided to the SRF Program have increased as program requirements expand. Taken together, these demands require a priority system to be in place for the work. The permit application form is deficient, the quality of submittals from engineering consultants is often of poor quality, and PEP times do not meet standard.
VT
Petroleum Cleanup Fund
Petroleum Cleanup Fund
VT
Public Noticing
Public Noticing
VT
Receipts Processing
Receipts Processing
VT
Source Permitting
All public water supply systems are required to have a source water permit for any new source, hydrofracturing or deepening of an existing source, or any increase in withdrawal of an existing source. The process was not adequately standardized, can be lengthy, and was unclear. In addition, most of the process was paper. An opportunity existed to address some of these issues.
VT
Stormwater General Permit
Stormwater General Permit
VT
VTrans/ANR Title 19 In-Stream Consultation
VTrans/ANR Title 19 In-Stream Consultation
VT
Wetlands
Wetlands
WA
Air Quality State Implementation Plan Rule-Making Process
Air Quality State Implementation Plan Rule-Making Process
WA
Certified Mail Project Decreased cost of Certified Mail from an average …
Certified Mail Project
Decreased cost of Certified Mail from an average $8.66 per letter (postage, supplies, labor) to average $5.82 per letter at Ecology’s Southwest Regional Office (SWRO). Total savings for our Headquarters Office and SWRO for 592 letters = $1,681.28.
Decreased time to process Certified Mail from 6:30 minutes per letter to 1:30 minutes (the cost savings associated with this is accounted for in the “cost” savings listed above.)
WA
Hanford E-Permit Project Decreased staff costs from an average* of …
Hanford E-Permit Project
Decreased staff costs from an average* of $38,935.00 for 22 hard copies to an average of $5,309.00 for 3 hard copies in August 2015 with the Revision 8c Permit.
Decreased supply costs from an average* of $40,243.89 for 22 hard copies to an average of $5,487.00 for 3 hard copies in August 2015 with the Revision 8c Permit. These savings occur a minimum of 4 times per year.
WA
Improve Consistency and Streamline Agency Grant and Loans Management …
Improve Consistency and Streamline Agency Grant and Loans Management Programs
WA
Increase Dangerous Waste Inspections to Help Business Compliance
Increase Dangerous Waste Inspections to Help Business Compliance
WA
Lab Accreditation Automation
Lab Accreditation Automation
WA
Lean Culture and Remedial Action Grant spending in the Toxic Site …
Lean Culture and Remedial Action Grant spending in the Toxic Site Cleanup Process
WA
Marine Waters Monitoring Electronic Field Forms
Marine Waters Monitoring Electronic Field Forms
WA
Streamflow Gaging Process Automation
Streamflow Gaging Process Automation
WA
Water Rights Processing: Phases 1, 2, and 3
Water Rights Processing: Phases 1, 2, and 3
WA
Watershed Health Monitoring Electronic Forms
Watershed Health Monitoring Electronic Forms
WA
Well Report Gateway – electronically submitted well reports
Well Report Gateway – electronically submitted well reports
WI
Administrative Rule Process
Administrative Rule Process