The law says that water is public property but allows appropriation and usage is acquired by administrative permits.
In Honduras, for example, the replacement of the system of import licensing and administrative permits by a quota system in 1994 and relaxation of phytosanitary restrictions in 1997 were followed by a steady increase of rice imports [ 20- 22].
Until three years ago, in the interests of administrative efficiency, Permit 26 had allowed the Corps to grant automatic permits to construction projects that affected less than 10 acres of wetlands.
The SEC is severely resource constrained, and administrative proceedings permit the SEC to litigate at lower cost and more quickly.
The SEC is severely resource constrained, and administrative proceedings permit the SEC to litigate at lower cost, more quickly, and closer to home (and thus away from more hostile courts and juries in "red" states).
The school plans to apply for their administrative use permit to operate as a school on the site, Zanic said.
The Lycée International de Los Angeles, which has four campuses, including one each in Los Feliz and Pasadena, filed paperwork requesting an administrative use permit with the city to allow a school to operate at the site, officials said.
To minimize administrative costs, permits would be required at the level of oil refineries, natural gas pipe lines, natural gas liquid sellers, and coal processing plants.
But Mr. Rosen said he had further cut agency travel expenses and eliminated what he called nonessential administrative positions, permitting him to "hire five more examiners, three of them in New York City".
