Marketable Permits

Recommendation 2017-4 – Marketable Permits provides best practices for structuring, administering, and overseeing marketable permitting programs for any agency that has decided to implement such a program. 

Citation: Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 2017-4, Marketable Permits, 82 Fed. Reg. 61730 (Dec. 29, 2017).

Featured Documents:

Final Recommendation:

Marketable Permits

Recommendation number
2017-4
Adoption Date
Committees

Marketable permits are a type of government-created license that regulates the level of a particular activity.[1]  Often, they ration the use of a resource (for instance, clean air by limiting pollution, fisheries by limiting fish catch, or the electromagnetic spectrum by allocating it among various uses), but they may also be used to satisfy a

Project Documents

Name Committee Type Date File
Agenda for October 25 2017 Committee of the Whole Meeting Agenda Download
Agenda for July 26 2017 Committee of the Whole Meeting Agenda Download
Marketable Permits Regulation Recommendation Download
Marketable Permits Recommendation - Redlined Recommendation Download
Draft Recommendation Approved by Committee of the Whole Recommendation Download
Draft Recommendation for October 25 2017 Committee of the Whole Meeting Recommendation Download
Marketable Permits Committee Recommendation Regulation Recommendation Download
Proposed Recommendation from Committee on Regulation Regulation Recommendation Download
Draft Recommendation for 4/13 Committee on Regulation Regulation Recommendation Download
Marketable Permits: Draft Recommendation for 3/28 Committee on Regulation Regulation Recommendation Download
Marketable Permits Condensed Draft Report Regulation Report Download
Marketable Permits Draft Report Regulation Report Download
Marketable Permits Final Report Report Download
Comments from National Marine Fisheries Service on the May 8, 2017 recommendations Regulation Public Comment Download
December 7 2017 Comment from Robert J. Girouard Member Comment Download
Council Statement on Marketable Permits Member Comment Download