Reducing the Number of Pending Legacy Permit Applications

DEEP has been successful in implementing permit and enforcement process improvements to reduce the amount of legacy applications remaining. The legacy application universe is considered to be those applications that DEEP has not been able to process within five years. 

Those that remain have some level of technical complexity, public notification requirements, or potential environmental risk and need statutory or regulatory revisions or require long-term, complicated solutions for resolution.

Many of the remaining pending legacy permits are requests for permit renewal. For permit renewals, if a request has been submitted prior to the permit expiration date, the applicant's business can continue under the previous permit until such time that the permit can be renewed.

Moving forward, DEEP will continue to balance processing outstanding legacy applications with meeting the estimated timeframes of incoming applications.