The Environmental Protection Agency is finding ways to use digital information technology to make environmental permitting more effective, two senior EPA attorneys said April 1 at a law and policy conference in Washington. Aditi Prabhu, an attorney-adviser in the EPA general counsel's office, said that it was a myth that the permit process "has to be old-school and bureaucratic," adding that in some cases individual permits were "a useful tool for avoiding that trap" because they allowed regulators and permittees to "explore novel options."
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