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Permitting Coordination Bi-Weekly Check-In
There are pulses of activity and different forums where permitting efforts are taking place, making it challenging for people to track and engage effectively. Join our permitting coordination check-ins every other Wednesday to track progress, share insights, and collaborate effectively.
Permitting Coordination Meeting 7.23.25 and Box Link
1. Updates – all
2. There is opportunity to add commitments to the Salmon Recovery Plan Addendum: 2025-27 Implementation Plan section on permitting and we will be joined by Melissa Speeg and Ashley Bagley from PSP to learn more. We will discuss:
– Background, purpose, and strategy: A commitment as a one sentence statement on an activity that is measurable, is bold yet achievable, and is timebound to be completed by or before 2030. Providing commitment statements regarding the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan Addendum provides a fuller picture of the work advancing the 20 implementation actions enabling PSP to identify implementation gaps and barriers. Commitments will help inform adaptive management. By providing commitment statements, your organization is agreeing to stay in communication with the Partnership to track the implementation of each commitment annually as well as its overall effectiveness over time.
– Is this an opportunity to refine or at least spur discussion regarding how to better work as a team?
– Are there additions this group, agencies, tribes, orgs may want to make? Other notes from PSP regarding what would be most supportive?
3. Reminder about Doodle to schedule fall meetings and Permitting Brief open for review
4. Short term FEMA comment alert: ASFPM has been alerted to a last-minute opportunity for members to share their knowledge, experiences, and expertise with the FEMA Review Council through a survey. The Council, which has already met twice, is now gathering input from state and local experts on what FEMA should look like in the future. Your on-the-ground perspective is essential to ensuring flood mitigation and floodplain management remain strong priorities.
We apologize for the short timeframe established by the FEMA Review Council. If you are able, please respond to the survey by tomorrow, July 23, at 5 p.m. EST (2 p.m. PST).
The purpose of this survey is to evaluate the 32 core capabilities outlined in the National Preparedness Goal and explore the potential for transferring certain responsibilities currently managed at the federal level.
Please review each capability, considering both how FEMA currently supports your organization/jurisdiction and the potential for transferring responsibilities. Using the core capabilities sheet, assess the existing roles and responsibilities, and then propose how these responsibilities could be accomplished by your organization/jurisdiction if FEMA support was no longer available.
The survey is broken out by FEMA’s four mission areas:
Mitigation: https://forms.
Preparedness: https://forms.
Response : https://forms.
Recovery: https://forms.
We recognize this is an extremely tight window, but your expertise matters. Please take a few minutes today or early tomorrow to share your perspective using the survey links above. Your input could help shape how FEMA supports communities in the years ahead.
5. Attached, FYI: EPIC’s letter regarding Nationwide Permits
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Permitting Coordination Meeting 7.23.25 and Box Link