Permitting Information

The Environmental Data Standards Council (EDSC) chartered a Permitting Data Standard Action Team late in 2000 to identify and define the major areas of permitting information, and to develop a data standard that could be used for the exchange of permitting data among environmental agencies and other entities. This Action Team produced a standard that consisted of identification and tracking data believed to be universally applicable to most programs that have a permitting process or that are interested in permit related information. This standard contained the following groups of data elements or “data blocks,” Permit Identification, Permitted Feature, Permit Administration, and Permit Contact. The EDSC approved that standard in December 2001.

• Standard Data Elements for Permitting Information
• Business Rules for the Permitting Information Data Standard