Expedited Review Fees and Procedure –

  1. Expedited review requests must be approved by the District Staff prior to submittal for the expedited review.  Expedited review requests will be honored and scheduled pursuant to staff availability.
  2. A pre-application meeting is recommended for project interested in pursuing an expedited review, but is not required.
  3. Agencies exempt from Erosion & Sediment Control (E&SC) Plan project fees will not be eligible for the expedited review.
  4. The following are to be submitted for the expedited review:
    1. Two checks: *Payable to the Butler County Conservation District

                                               i.     The initial E&SC Plan Project Fee

                                             ii.     The expedited E&SC Plan Review Fee equal to double the initial project fee.

    1. The NPDES Permit Fees (if applicable).
    2. The NPDES Notice of Intent – NOI and required documentation (if applicable)
    3. The E&SC Plan narrative and drawings
    4. The E&S Manualšs  E&SC Plan technical review checklist
    5. The Post Construction Stormwater Management (PCSM) narrative and drawings (if applicable).
  1. Individual NPDES permits require a PCSM review by the Department. The Department will review the PCSM plan on their schedule. This expedited review process is only for the E&S plan and does not guarantee that the NPDES permit will be issued upon the E&S plan approval.
  2. NPDES Projects only –
    1. The Conservation District will conduct an administrative review of the documents within five (5) working days of receipt of the scheduled expedited review submission.  If the administrative review determines that the submission is incomplete, both the applicant and the plan designer(s) will be notified by both an e-mail and telephone call.  The notification will identify the omissions and request that the documents be resubmitted.
    2. The technical review process will begin once the submission is administratively complete.  Projects disturbing 0-50 acres will be reviewed within 10 working days. A plan disturbing 50-100 acres will be reviewed within 15 working days of receipt. Expedited review letters will be faxed to the applicant and engineer and will be deemed received as of that date
    3. A cover letter detailing the revisions that were made and plan sets with the changes highlighted must be provided. The District will commit to reviewing the revisions within twice the number of days it takes for the revisions to be submitted (i.e.; the District will have six working days in which to review revisions submitted within three working days of receipt of review letter).
  3. E&S Reviews only (Less than one acre of disturbance)
    1. Projects will be reviewed within 10 working days. Expedited review letters will be faxed to the applicant and engineer and will be deemed received as of that date.
    2. A cover letter detailing the revisions that were made and plan sets with the changes highlighted must be provided. The District will commit to reviewing the revisions within twice the number of days it takes for the revisions to be submitted (i.e.; the District will have six working days in which to review revisions submitted within three working days of receipt of review letter).
  4. Projects on which an expedited review is requested should be far enough along that E&S review is one of the final steps in the approval process – repeated submissions of the same project because of design changes are unacceptable. Once a plan has been deemed adequate, it will not be accepted a second time for expedited review.
  5. The expedited fee will cover an initial review plus two follow-up reviews, if needed. If a third follow-up review is needed, it will be outside of the expedited review system and will require an additional fee based on 30% of the usual fee.