1.   An environmental group is suing three salmon farms for not having a federal permit.

2.   Anyone who wants to drain, dam or otherwise destroy a wetland first must obtain a federal permit from the Army Corps of Engineers.

3.   At the same time, obtaining the necessary federal permits to clean flood control channels has been a bureaucratic nightmare, he said.

4.   Challenges by the Miccosukees have snarled key permits, and water managers are feuding with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the terms of their federal dredging permit.

5.   Chairman Dale Runyon said the company will begin producing gold at its Arizona site as soon as it has the necessary federal permits.

6.   He did not predict what, if anything, his clients might do as the city continues to seek its final federal permit to manage the pool.

7.   However, it would make some land harder to develop since builders typically need federal permits to change streams or wetlands.

8.   In California, those federal permits are issued by state toxics officials.

9.   Just one of those plants has made it through the state bureaucracy, and that one faces delays in getting federal permits.

10.   One provision would allow the Pentagon to obtain federal permits for killing migratory birds in training exercises.