Planning & Permitting

WESTECH has over 40 years of experience working with project developers to provide logical solutions to project planning challenges.  Since our project managers are intimately familiar with each project, they can evaluate on-site conditions through the lens of regulatory requirements and apply those observations to aspects of project design.  WESTECH has worked with local, state, and federal permitting agencies throughout the Intermountain West, Northwest, and Midwest regions of the United States.

Examples of permitting experience include:

• Hardrock and coal mining permits
  • Mine Exploration Permits
  • Mine Operating Permits
  • Mine Reclamation Plans
• Water Quality Permits
  • Federal Permits
    • Federal Clean Water Act – Section 404 Permit
    • Federal Rivers and Harbors Act – Section 10 Permit
  • State Water Quality
    • 401 Water Quality Certification
    • Montana Stream Protection Act (124 Permit)
    • Montana Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act (310 Permit)
    • Short-Term Turbidity Protection (318 Authorization)
  • Stormwater plans and permits
    • National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
    • Stormwater Protection Plans (SWPPP)
    • Temporary and Hydrostatic Test Water Discharge Plans
  • Right of Way permits
  • Department of the Interior (DOI)
    • Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
    • Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
    • National Park Service (NPS)
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) permits
    • Natural Gas Pipeline Pipeline and Storage Permitting
      • Natural Gas Act Sections 2.55, 157, and 7(c)
    • Weed management plans and permits
      • County weed management plans
      • Federal Pesticide Use Proposals (PUP)