Audit Reports Affecting Multiple Agencies
A Review of Selected Permitting Processes and Activities: Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Railroad Commission, and Department of Commerce
Report Number 95-012
The Texas Department of Commerce, which is designated to facilitate and coordinate the state permitting and licensing process, generally provides satisfactory permitting services. However, statutory changes could improve the dissemination of permitting information by the Department.
Changes in the Alcoholic Beverage Commission's permitting and licensing processes could reduce processing time by three days (potentially increasing gross receipts of applicants by $6.3 million a year), increase state revenue by $147,000 per year, and reduce the agency's annual operating expenditures by $105,000.
While the Railroad Commission processes permitting applications without unnecessary delay in most divisions, certain procedures could be streamlined in the Oil and Gas Division. Due to the limitation of existing state statutes, at least 45 oil and gas operators with unpaid fines totaling over $800,000 continue to do business in the State.
In Texas, 84 state agencies issue 836 types of permits and licenses.
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