Contractors, utilities and owners working in the street
Free check of who owns the road at your work site, which encroachment or right-of-way permit to get and what to attach, with Caltrans as an example.
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How it works
What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Site-specific safety plan with activity hazard analyses door.
Modeled on: Caltrans Encroachment Permits program and your city's right-of-way permit form
From public data
is how long Caltrans has to approve or deny a complete encroachment permit application on a state highway
Source: Caltrans Encroachment Permits, citing Streets and Highways Code 671.5(a)
Draft a site-specific safety plan with a hazard analysis (AHA) for each task, fall protection and emergency steps for your GC or a Corps job. Free to read.
Questions
Online through Caltrans' CEPS portal. Since January 1, 2025, utility companies and repeat applicants must submit all permit applications through CEPS. Review is billed by the hour, $181 an hour from January 1, 2026, and a deposit is typically required with the application.
Under Streets and Highways Code section 671.5(a), Caltrans must approve or deny an encroachment permit application within 60 calendar days once it determines the application is complete.
Only if approved. On federal-aid projects, property inside the right-of-way must be devoted to public highway purposes, and the state highway agency must keep it free of public and private installations or encroachments it hasn't approved.
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Answer it and ePlan opens the Site-specific safety plan with activity hazard analyses door with your answer filled in.