Description
The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is seeking to engage Qualified Professionals to review permits on an expedited basis as part of the SPEED Program. The selected Qualified Professionals will be required to provide services including reviewing permit applications and NOIs, identifying deficiencies, communicating with DEP, and providing draft deficiency letters and Fact Sheets. The Qualified Professionals must meet certain criteria, including being employed as a professional engineer, land surveyor, geologist, or landscape architect, and having five years of relevant CAFO permitting experience.
• The SPEED Program provides third-party applicants with the opportunity to engage a Qualified Professional to conduct an expedited review of their permit application.
• The Qualified Professionals will be required to operate within the time frames and parameters of the workflow described in the solicitation.
• The initial review must be completed within 20 percent of the total review timeframe provided in the Project Work Order.
• The Qualified Professionals may be required to provide witness testimony in permitting actions that may arise from a permit they have reviewed.