{"id":2282507,"date":"2024-06-24T08:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T12:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-expands-online-permitting-efficiencies-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T08:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T12:52:35","slug":"virginia-expands-online-permitting-efficiencies-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-expands-online-permitting-efficiencies-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia expands online permitting efficiencies &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-expands-online-permitting-efficiencies-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2282507&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Virginia&#8217;s permit-tracking\u2064 website, initially featuring\u2064 permits from three government \u200ddepartments, has recently expanded to include three additional departments, bringing the total to six. \u200bThis expansion means that Virginia residents and businesses can monitor the status of their permits in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-staff-told-us-he-misspoke-joe-biden-confuses-his-agenda-in-60-minutes-interview-so-his-staff-steps-in-to-correct-the-record-video\/\" title=\"\"Biden's Staff Told Us He Misspoke\" - Joe Biden Confuses His Agenda in 60 Minutes Interview so His Staff Steps in to Correct the Record (VIDEO)\">real time<\/a> for the Department of Health, Department\u2063 of Transportation, Department \u200bof Conservation and Recreation, Department of Environmental\u2064 Quality, Virginia Marine Resources Commission, and \u200cDepartment\u200c of Energy. According to Reeve Bull, the Director of the Office of Regulatory Management, this \u200ddevelopment enhances transparency and efficiency in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-announces-mind-numbingly-stupid-plan-to-reduce-gas-prices-by-a-few-cents\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Announces \u201cMind-Numbingly Stupid\u201d Plan to Reduce Gas Prices by a Few Cents\">permit process<\/a>, greatly \u2064benefiting businesses, citizens, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-abbott-pushes-back-against-bidens-climate-agenda\/\" title=\"Texas Gov. Abbott pushes back against Biden\u2019s climate agenda\">state agencies<\/a>\u2063 alike. The system has helped the Department of Environmental Quality reduce average permit processing times by\u2064 more than 70% since 2022. With the addition of departments, the platform now handles \u2064approximately\u200d 100,000 permits annually, a number expected to \u2064grow due to the quicker processing\u200c times. The \u200bexpansion positions Virginia \u2063as a leader in regulatory modernization, with no equivalent system currently available at other state or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-democrat-to-introduce-basic-income-plan-to-pay-up-to-5000-city-residents\/\" title=\"Chicago Democrat To Introduce Basic Income Plan To Pay Up To 5,000 City Residents\">federal levels<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2014 Virginia\u2019s permit-tracking website has expanded from including permits from three state government departments to six.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia residents and businesses can now follow online in real time the permits they\u2019ve submitted to the Virginia Department of Health, Department of Transportation, and Department of Conservation and Recreation, as well as permits from the state Department of Environmental Quality, Virginia Marine Resources Commission and Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVPT is a game changer for Virginia businesses and citizens as well as state agencies,\u201d said Director of the Office of Regulatory Management Reeve Bull. \u201cIt brings an unprecedented level of transparency to the permitting process and is already making life much easier for anyone tracking a Virginia permit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to the efficiencies the system allows, the Department of Environmental Quality \u2013 one of the original departments to implement the program \u2013 has already \u201creduced its average permit processing time by over 70% since 2022,\u201d according to a press release from the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, the six agencies issue roughly 100,000 permits per year, which could grow due to faster processing times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this expansion, Virginia is again proving to be a trendsetter in the regulatory modernization space. No other state government nor federal agency offers anything nearly as comprehensive,\u201d according to the release.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia&#8217;s permit-tracking website now includes six state departments, up from three. Residents and businesses can monitor real-time status of submissions to the Departments of Health, Transportation, Conservation and Recreation, among others, online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2282508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/iStock-1851969709-1024x578.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[21833,12432,32407,5468,32076],"class_list":["post-2282507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-efficiency","tag-expansion","tag-online-permitting","tag-virginia","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/iStock-1851969709-1024x578.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}