The Corps must first determine if the waters at the project site are jurisdictional and subject to the requirements of the Section 404 permitting program.

This provision was the basis for the federal wetlands permitting program.

The Habitat Division implements a statewide special areas permitting program to manage land and water use activities within a special area.

NSR is a preconstruction permitting program that serves two important purposes.

Construction: What types of construction activities are regulated under the construction stormwater permit program?

The scientists said, for example, that a 1999 corps memorandum setting goals for the wetlands permitting program put compliance inspections far down on a list of priorities.

RCRA instituted the first federal permitting program for hazardous waste and it also made open dumping illegal.

The Governor also said he would see to it that the Environmental Protection Department administers the wetlands permit program in an efficient and timely manner.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has also been critical of TCEQ's air permitting program.

Under this permitting program, environmental impacts are to be avoided if possible, reduced and mitigated if necessary.

A new permit program to control industrial and municipal storm-water discharges is required under the act.

Forty states already have some form of permit program, according to the environmental agency.

The focus of the new permit program was on industrial pollution.

A weak permit program undermines nearly all of the gains achieved by the act.

These sources were therefore considered to be nonpoint sources that were not subject to the permit program.

The courts ruled that stormwater discharges must be covered by the permit program.

And a permit program could be easily policed.

For permit programs to be approved, states must provide opportunities for public involvement during the permit application process.

It is a permit program that places a burden on the permit applicant to prove the proposed site impacts the least amount of wetland possible.

The fee is excessive, the judge said, and does not accurately reflect the city's cost to administer the permit program.