State of South Carolina · Department of Transportation

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Encroachment Permit Processing System

Tier 2 — Important

Public-facing intake and workflow for encroachment permits: utility installations, driveway connections, special events. Routes applications through district review queues and collects fees through the state payment gateway.

ID: epps
Last BIA review: 2026-06-24
Business Owner
P. Ashford — Director of Right of Way & Permits
Right of Way & Permits
Technical Owner
D. Pruitt — Maintenance Systems Administrator
Hosting
Cloud (SaaS)
Vendor multi-tenant SaaS; payment processing via state gateway
Platform / Vendor
Commercial SaaS permitting
Data Classification
Internal
User Base
~7,800 external applicants/yr; 90 district reviewers

Business Impact Assessment

Scored 1 (negligible) to 5 (severe) across the six impact categories from the Phase I BIA scope.

Public Safety2/5
Financial / Revenue3/5
Federal Funding & Compliance1/5
Operational Disruption3/5
Legal / Contractual3/5

Utility accommodation agreements set response-time obligations.

Public-Facing Service4/5

Statutory review clocks on utility permits; outages back up applicants statewide.

Max impact: 4/5Disruption likelihood: 3/5Risk score: 12 (High)View on heat map →

Multi-tenant SaaS with periodic vendor maintenance overruns; payment gateway dependency.

Recovery Objectives

Proposed via BIA
MTD
1 week
RTO
72 hours
RPO
24 hours
Minimum availability
99%
Service window
Business hours

Workaround Feasibility

Full (manual)

Paper/e-mail intake with deferred entry is documented district practice for short outages.

Dependencies

Systems, vendors, data feeds, infrastructure, and personnel this application depends on. Single points of failure are flagged.

DependencyTypeSPOFNotes
State payment gatewayVendorFee collection
OneMap Enterprise GISSystemLocation validation
Permitting SaaS vendorVendor

Tier Assignment Traceability

Public-facing score of 4 with a fully feasible manual workaround (R3): Tier 2.

R3
Federal compliance score ≥ 4 with periodic (weekly/monthly) deadlines, or any score = 4 with feasible workaround
Assign at least Tier 2
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