Faster and Smarter: Four Sherrill Administration Leaders Lay Out Ways to Fix Permitting, Increase Efficiency

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From left, Kellie Doucette, Ed Potosnak, Jacqueline Suarez and Evan Weiss at NJ Future event last week

The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection processes roughly 20,000 permits a year — and approves 97 percent of them. The bottleneck is not the problem. It’s the wait.

So said acting DEP Commissioner Ed Potosnak during a panel of four top Sherrill administration officials at the annual conference of NJ Future last week in New Brunswick.