State of New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Bureau Permitting

Download or read book State of New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Bureau Permitting written by New Hampshire. Office of the Legislative Budget Assistant and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Department of Environmental Services (Department) lacked a system demonstrating the extent to which Wetlands Bureau (Bureau) permitting achieved expected outcomes. The Bureau's principal purpose was to prevent despoilation, or the uncontrolled devaluing, of submerged lands and to regulate development of protected shorelands through permitting. However, the Department lacked adequate control systems to understand and manage performance or determine whether these outcomes were being achieved ... Management control systems must be effectively designed and implemented, operate together, and be monitored and improved to provide reasonable assurances the Bureau could achieve expected outcomes"--Page i.