Study would review DEP permits to ‘get government out of the way’
The Center Square cited CEI on DEP permits
An analysis from the Competitive Enterprise Institute found that DEP’s regional offices vary dramatically in the time it takes to issue permits. Depending on where a company wants to dig, clearing a permit could take 79 days to 123 days. In some places, the problem has gotten worse: wait times for a permit in DEP’s southwest and northcentral regional offices grew by 56% and 86%, respectively, from 2015 to 2021.
Pennsylvania governors have had a mixed record on permitting reforms, said James Broughel, the author of the CEI report, and argued that bigger reform attempts may be needed to fix the commonwealth’s permitting woes.