The developer offered to build a 100-acre park and donate it to the city--if it got permits to build an underground parking garage, a nature center and an art museum.

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And if I'm in shape to do it and if my health permits, then I'd be perfectly happy to serve, but he'll have to make that call and it's a decision that's several years away.

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It seems as if permits were too often issued based on little more than assurances of safety from the oil companies.

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Yet so long as you remain the account's owner, you can change the beneficiary or even take the money back -- if the state plan permits it.

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If the administration were at all interested in getting permits and drill bits going again then it would phase in these new environmental assessments gradually.

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If it sticks with the timeline, then it could complete the project ahead many of those that received permits last year but have yet to start construction.

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Regulators, citing a pattern of violations, have been slapping Massey with "show cause" orders: They will suspend, even permanently revoke, permits to mine or process or store coal, if the company doesn't show it has mended its ways.

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If you have or are considering opening these types of accounts, it is worth looking into an administrator that permits self-direction.

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