MDOT receives environmental permit applications and notices from individuals, agencies, organizations and businesses. These applications involve operating or constructing privately or publicly owned facilities within the state highway right of way. Typical facility or activity types include:
- Environmental institutional controls
- Environmental clean‑up activities
- Monitoring well installations
- Soil boring and soil testing
- Remediation clean‑ups
- Illicit Discharge Elimination Program activities
MDOT reviews and issues permits for these types of facilities or operations in a way that protects the integrity of the state’s highway right‑of‑way system, while also ensuring the safest possible transportation environment for the traveling public.