Placing staff in resource agencies is part of a WSDOT and Federal Highways effort to improve transportation project planning, permitting, and project delivery. Since 1999, the Resource Agency Project Liaison Program has provided staff dedicated to the delivery of transportation project improvements at several state and federal resource agencies. This program provides specialists to work only on WSDOT and local agency transportation projects and issues such as early coordination on transportation permits, Endangered Species Act (ESA) concurrence, and environmental review.
Some liaison positions are filled with WSDOT staff based at the resource agency while others are resource agency staff funded by WSDOT.
WSDOT Environmental Services Office has Project and TPEAC Liaisons in the following agencies.
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US Army Corps of Engineers |
3 positions |
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US Fish and Wildlife Service |
4 positions |
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US NOAA Fisheries Service |
3 position |
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WA Department of Ecology |
8 positions |
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WA Department of Fish & Wildlife |
5 positions |
For more information, please contact the WSDOT Liaison Program Manager, Bob Thomas, 360-705-7662 or Liaison staff.