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ADEQ explored, and almost took over, federal Clean Water Act Section 404 permitting a few years ago (the Corps generally issues CWA 404 permits but states have the ability assume the program if they want to). I recall ADEQ's proposed fees for CWA 404 permits was one of the issues that came up...

Good morning, Maria. Since you're permitting a building/structure, I think posting right here in the Building & Planning forum should work. 🙂 Don't worry too much about posting in the right forum, just do your best. I'll move your post (and you'll be notified) if I think the topic really...

USACE Regulatory requires that permittees submit a "Certificate of Compliance." The certification is a super basic one-page form in which the permittee documents that they completed the work in accordance with the permit terms and conditions. It can be downloaded here...

Sounds like you would have at least completed plan review in the 2.5 months between application submittal and the withdrawal/refund request? That being the case—and like what @Emily C related above—it makes sense to me that you wouldn't grant the refund. I would think that staff labor costs...

Looks like this legislation finally collapsed a couple weeks ago. There was some 11th-hour negotiating to try and get a bill passed ahead of the next Congress but differences re: NEPA reform couldn't be worked out.

Thanks, @W3 Planning and Research, for the suggestion to check the fire code. I checked the 2018 IFC (that's the one you operate under, right Maria?) and noted the table shown in Section 6104.3. The table specifies minimum separation between propane containers and buildings/public ways/lot...

Understood :) . I suggest checking out the JD educational materials for the Corps' Regulatory Request System (i.e., our new electronic submittal system launched earlier this year). See the RRS jurisdiction page at: https://rrs.usace.army.mil/rrs/home/jurisdiction Read through the Q&As on that...

Kind of like @RavenGirl56, sounds like you have a situation where a non-Corps entity—in your case, the State of Ohio (Ohio EPA)—is the one wanting to see an AJD, not the Corps. That's too bad because it sounds like you're talking about clearly non-jurisdictional features here, i.e., the...

Yes, absolutely, it's the Corps' practice to always honor JD requests unless impractical to do so. You might want to take a look at RGL 16-01 and RGL 16-01 Q&As, which explain the differences between AJDs, PJDs, and "No JD Whatsoever" situations. Per the RGL, regulators should be having...

AJD are generally optional, and some districts were processing a lot of them when really they didn't need to. Sometimes the property owner just wants the information because it affects their property value and how they can develop in the future. I think in other cases consultants tell their...

About a year ago, the Corps changed the way it calculates budget allocations for individual districts. That calculation no longer factors in AJDs and is now based more purely on permit actions. There's no incentive for districts to prioritize AJDs because that effort won't be accounted for in...

Same here. We include the survey link in every permit and in every regulator's email signature, but the response rate is super low. You'd almost have to withhold the permit until they complete the survey (lol) to start getting statistically meaningful response numbers. Not sure why people are...

Reminds me of this meme floating around social media right now. Elon Musk or someone associated with him posted it a few weeks ago... Especially in our current DOGE era, chatter about government inefficiency has definitely ramped up. Your sentiment of "I haven't fought this yet, but, I may"...

Fellow Californian here too (from San Diego). I had to look Sausalito up to see where you're at exactly — looks like a really nice Bay Area town. :)

How do other offices out there collect customer service feedback? One problem we seem to have is that although we have a survey (https://regulatory.ops.usace.army.mil/ords/f?p=136:4), it only asks customers questions at the section/organization level and doesn't offer any opportunity to comment...

I refined the GPTs to mainly include those for states with statewide adopted codes (e.g., FL, OH, MA, MI, MN, etc.) or for local jurisdictions where forum members provided all the jurisdiction-specific codebooks (Los Angeles). I had GPTs posted for other states, like Virginia, but decided they...

Ohio is operating under the pre-2015 regulatory regime + Sackett because of an order issued by the U.S District Court for District of North Dakota on April 12, 2023 that enjoined the 2023 Rule in 24 states, including Ohio. You should expect to transition over to the Amended 2023 Rule as soon as...

I think folding in with the City's .gov website makes sense. I'm assuming that, as part of the move, LADBS' site also has a whole new design? I like the style — simple, modern, professional.

I can tell you've been in the thick of things because you're throwing around database terminology like "production environment" :LOL:. It's great you're willing to take on all this technology work and I'm sure your office appreciates it. Thanks for sharing!

Any updates at this point about how the new Tyler Tech system is going? :) You'd mentioned it's been consuming a lot of your time. Any lessons learned you'd pass along to others for launching a new system like this?