Priorities for the Permit Efficiency Study, 2006
Multi-media
Lead staff: Kathy Frahm
- Improve staff and public input into the regulatory process
Solid Waste
Lead staff: Karen Sismour
- Streamline solid waste permit application and permit format
- Improve permit coordination (internal and pre-application meetings)
- Permit workload analysis
Hazardous Waste
Lead staff: Karen Sismour
- Streamline hazardous waste permit application
- Expedited permit review for Virginia Environmental Excellence Program facilities
- Cross train inspectors for multi-media inspections
Virginia Water Protection
Lead staff: Ellen Gilinsky
- Improve the wetlands program and examine 404 Assumption. (This includes improving alignment between DEQ and Corps, improving multi-agency coordination of permit reviews, improving permit quality and consistency, and improving pre-application process and completeness reviews of permits.)
- Increase compliance assurance through development of new compliance and inspection strategy
Virginia Pollution Discharge Elimination System
Lead staff: Ellen Gilinsky
- Make inspections more valuable (risk based inspections, changes to procedures, etc)
- Expand use of general permits
- Streamline individual VPDES permit application and renewal process
Air
Lead staff: Tamera Thompson
- Improve air permit application process
- Streamline how changes are incorporated into Title V permits
- Clarify Title V semi-annual and annual reporting requirements to eliminate duplicative report preparation work by permittees