An Overview of a few: Washington Environmental Permitting Initiatives 200709

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An Overview of a few Washington
EnvironmentalPermitting Initiatives 2007-09
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Purpose of briefing

• Provide a brief overview and status of a few
  environmental permitting related initiatives that
  are currently in progress.
• JARPA Plain Talk
• ePermitting.org (soon to be ePermitting.wa.gov)
• Washington Location Finder
• Integrated Project Review and Mitigation Tools
  Initiative
• HPMS, Washington Fish Wildlife
• Ortho Image Portal, Multi-agency
• Forest Practices Application Review System
  (FPARS), DNR
• Habitat Work Schedule Project, Washington Fish
  Wildlife
• Mitigation Parcel Search Pilot, Clark County
• These projects are not centrally managed,
  directed or controlled.
• We have assembled an informal interest group
  consisting of participants and leaders of various
  initiatives. Intent is for us to
• Come together and share
• Learn from each other
• Identify opportunities to leverage and integrate
  efforts / solutions

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Who we are

• We provide direct assistance to businesses and
  individuals as they navigate complex state, local
  and federal environmental regulations.
• We provide leadership across government agencies
  and jurisdictions to improve and simplify
  Washingtons regulatory system.
• We partner with DIS, other federal, state local
  agencies and associations on key initiatives
• Enterprise Business Portal (business.wa.gov)
• Integrated Project Review Mitigation Tools
  Initiative
• ePermitting.org (soon to be ePermitting.wa.gov)

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JARPA Plain Talk (Overview)

• Multi-agency team with representation from city
  and county associations working to plain talk and
  improve the JARPA application process.
• Focus of effort at this juncture is on improving
  the application process to make it easier to
  understand and submit a complete application.
• Improvements being worked on include
• Plain talk.
• Improve form layout that is easier to read.
• Provide instructions help that are
  understandable to a novice applicant.
• Improve logic and sequencing to the questions.
• Scalable to accommodate novice, one-time JARPA
  self-preparer, to seasoned, experienced JARPA
  preparer.
• Necessity review of all questions by the
  agencies for relevance today and importance in
  the initial application.

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JARPA Plain Talk (Schedule)
Participating Agencies Washington Office of
Regulatory Assistance, Washington Departments of
Ecology, Transportation Fish and Wildlife,
Information Services, Natural Resources and the
US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington
Association of Counties
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ePermitting.org (Overview)

• ePermitting.org (soon to be ePermitting.wa.gov)
• Provides information guidance
• Provides guidance for which permits to obtain.
• Provides help for filling out JARPA applications.
• Provides JARPA form for download.
• Provides the Unique Project Identifier for the
  new JARPA application.
• Currently used by all applicants, currently used
  statewide.
• Includes a collaborative project management
  workspace
• Provides a secure place for applicants to upload
  their JARPA and associated documents.
• Allows the applicant to invite agency reviewers
  to review their documents.
• Supports threaded discussion function for
  communication between agency permitters and the
  applicant.
• Currently used by WSDOT for select projects,
  currently used statewide.

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ePermitting.org (Schedule)
Participating Agencies Washington Office of
Regulatory Assistance, Washington Departments of
Ecology, Information Services, Transportation,
Fish and Wildlife and US Army Corps of
Engineers, Washington Association of Counties

• Schedule
• Effort underway to move site from external
  hosting provider to DIS hosted services by May
  2008
• Change web address to ePermitting.wa.gov (note
  ePermitting.org will still work) May 2008
• Portal will be updated with the new plain-talked
  JARPA, new guidance and to provide a Unique
  Project Identifier needed for the new
  application.
• Continue to maintain and enhance information and
  guidance on portal on-going. E.g. Add SEPA
  information and example checklists.

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Integrated Project Review Mitigation Tools
(Overview)

• As a part of this phase of the project, we will
• Build and deploy a web-based decision support
  tool for use by local, state and federal
  permitting agencies for public infrastructure
  projects in Clark County.
• Provide consistent design and development
  measures for applicants to use in permit
  applications and supporting documents.
• Provide consistent target conditions that
  agencies can use to condition permits and
  supporting plans.
• Adopt a coordinated, consistent, and transparent
  process to evaluate permit applications.
• Improve the capacity of the applicant to provide
  better permitting information.
• Improve the communication between applicants and
  permitters to analyze project alternatives,
  identify impacts and mitigation opportunities,
  track compliance, and determine cumulative
  effects.

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Integrated Project Review Mitigation Tools
(Schedule)
Participating Agencies Washington Office of
Regulatory Assistance, Washington Departments of
Ecology, Transportation, Fish and Wildlife,
Information Services US Army Corps of Engineers,
NOAA Fisheries, US Fish Wildlife, Association
of Washington Cities, Washington Association of
Counties, Clark County, City of Vancouver