Managing Environmental Permits: Supporting the Horror Story with Statistics

Managing environmental permits, licenses and registrations – federal, state, regional, local – is a daunting task for retailers.  We can all share permitting horror stories. The data confirms the nightmare we all anecdotally know to be true but also reveals interesting and perhaps helpful insights. Small and large group interaction (prediction game) to share experiences and examine multi-year statistics on the myriad of environmental permits, registrations, licenses, certificates, and their renewals retailers must manage.

Significance of topic for attendees and key takeaways for the session:

The current regulatory environment nationwide is ever changing causing more and more facility assets to be regulated. This raises the following questions for any retailer:  Are you aware of all the regulated assets in your facilities? Are you aware of the environmental regulatory requirements for the assets in your facilities? Are you confident that your facilities have the necessary environmental permits, registration and certifications for the assets?  Are the environmental permits current or expired?  What does it take to renew an environmental permit? 

Takeaways from this session:

Through a fun and interactive process the audience will obtain hard statistics to support the complexity of the task of merely managing licenses and renewals