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MassDEP describes permit‑streamlining effort aiming to "reduce process without reducing protection"
Summary
Massachusetts DEP outlined an interagency permit‑streamlining project that includes regulatory tweaks, improved guidance and a technology feasibility study intended to shorten wetland and water-resource permitting while keeping environmental protections in place.
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection officials described an interagency Permit Streamlining Project at the Barnstable County dredging summit, saying the effort aims to reduce permitting time without lowering environmental protection.
"The purpose of this project, which started in December, is simple, to reduce process without reducing protection," MassDEP wetlands program chief Lisa Rhodes told summit attendees as she summarized the project’s tasks and near‑term goals.
Rhodes said the project — led by the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs with DEP in a facilitating role — convened internal and external streamlining…
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