Overseers grant permits to members who wish to leave their congregations for vacations or to take jobs outside of the church district.
The Interior Department has said the oil company will not be granted permits to resume operations in Alaska until it proves it has adequate oversight and equipment in place.
Loudoun County grants permits for the courthouse lawn displays on a first-come, first-served basis.
New York has had a moratorium on fracking since 2008, when the state first began to consider granting permits to drill.
The Army Corps grants permits to dredge or fill U.S. waters, including wetlands, under section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
There are designated walls and buildings throughout Melbourne where the city grants permits for artists to display their work.
And raised those of First Nations: as Trudeau has said repeatedly, "governments grant permits, but only communities grant permission".
"They grant permits and then don't monitor, because they just don't have enough monitoring staff.
They voted unanimously for the ban on February 12th after one householder challenged the existing law, which allowed trustees to grant permits on a case-by-case basis.
Reid's proposal offers the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission "backstop" authority to grant permits for new transmission lines when states delay approval.
