Service

Permitting & Project Management

End-to-end permitting across railroads, utilities, federal lands, and municipalities — with compliance tracking, timeline management, and stakeholder coordination from application through approval.

About This Service

Permitting is where infrastructure projects stall — not because the work is impossible, but because it requires navigating multiple agencies, jurisdictions, and approval timelines simultaneously. Western States Land Services manages this complexity on behalf of our clients. We coordinate permits across railroads, utility companies, municipalities, federal land agencies, and state departments of transportation. We maintain compliance tracking at every stage and keep project schedules intact through proactive agency communication and responsive issue resolution.

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Every Jurisdiction. Every Approval Type.

Our permitting team handles a wide range of approval types: railroad crossing permits, utility occupancy and encroachment permits, municipal right-of-way permits, Bureau of Land Management rights-of-way, U.S. Forest Service and Army Corps of Engineers coordination, CDOT encroachment permits, and state agency approvals across Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas. We manage submission, tracking, agency follow-up, and comment resolution — delivering completed approvals, not status updates.

Our agents handle every phase of the acquisition process. We evaluate routes for feasibility, research parcel ownership and encumbrances, prepare offers based on certified appraisals, negotiate directly with landowners, and prepare all legal instruments required for recording. Every step is documented for regulatory compliance. Clients work with one experienced team from start to finish — not a chain of disconnected specialists.