has enabled us to make important gains, including: Urging regulators to eliminate the unacceptable backlog work necessary to identify the problem and now we are aggressively pushing to eliminate the permit backlog Your gift will allow us to continue this critical work and keep us fighting to eliminate the permit backlogs

The 2016 report highlighted a backlog of applications for renewals of expired operating permits for major whether applications to issue and renew operating permits for major sources in those areas were similarly backlogged Second, we also looked at the agencies’ backlogs of applications for renewal permits.  take immediate steps–including raising the fees that they impose on Title V sources–to eliminate their backlogs of applications for Title V Operating Permit renewals and prevent such backlogs from recurring.

about any specific instance, suggested that the reasons for the delay might include an administrative backlog