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Senate committee hears DES plan to let applicants email towns instead of first-class mail
Summary
The Department of Environmental Services asked the Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee to let municipalities be notified electronically when the agency receives permit applications; DES cited a $4.6 million e-permitting contract and proposed amendments that shift some notification duties to applicants while keeping agency verification and website posting.
The Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee heard testimony Tuesday on Senate Bill 527, a Department of Environmental Services request to allow municipalities to receive permit-notification notices electronically instead of by first-class mail.
Adam Crapo, assistant commissioner at DES, told the committee the agency is modernizing permitting systems and has "a $4,600,000 contract" with a vendor to put land resources permitting online and move databases behind it. Crapo said the existing statute—dating to the 1990s—requires agencies to send paper mail to municipalities when an application is filed. "What we're trying to do here is allow for that to be done…
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