Eric T. OlsenEric T. Olsen

119 South Monroe Street, Suite 300
Tallahassee, FL 32301
850.222.7500

eolsen@hgslaw.com


Experience

  • Former Senior Assistant General Counsel, St. Johns River Water Management District 1990-1999.
  • Represents clients before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, United States Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, water management districts, and local governments on wetlands and surface water regulation issues.
  • Represents clients before the state's five water management districts in obtaining water use or consumptive use permits.
  • Represents clients before the state's five water management districts on water supply planning issues.
  • Experienced in all aspects of obtaining permits such as overcoming third-party objector concerns, litigating permit disputes, resolving compliance issues, and negotiating permit conditions.
  • Represents clients before the Department of Environmental Protection and water management districts in administrative rulemaking and policy development regarding wetlands, surface water regulation and water use regulation.
  • Involved in the development of regulations governing Environmental Resource Permitting, mitigation banking, wetland delineation, and consumptive use regulation.
  • Represents clients before the Florida Legislature on, wetlands, mitigation, water supply and consumptive use permitting issues.
  • Involved in drafting and lobbying legislation governing environmental resource permitting, wetland delineation, mitigation banking and water use regulation.

Education

  • University of Florida College of Law, J.D., with honors, 1989.
  • Clemson University, B.A., 1986.

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Florida Bar, 1989.
  • United States District Court, Middle District, 1990.

Professional Affiliations

  • Florida Bar, Section on Environmental and Land Use Law.

Publications and Presentations

  • "Mitigation Banking Under the Florida Environmental Reorganization Act of 1993", 68 Florida Bar Journal 68 (July/August 1994).
  • "Required Rulemaking Under Florida's APA: An Analysis of 'Feasible' and 'Practicable'", 67 Florida Bar Journal 62 (July/August 1993).
  • Regularly lectures on the subjects of wetland delineation, wetland permitting, and mitigation banking at Florida Chamber of Commerce environmental permitting courses, Florida Bar presentations, CLE International courses, and National Mitigation Banking Conferences.
  • Regularly lectures on the topics of consumptive use permitting and water supply at Florida Chamber of Commerce environmental permitting courses, CLE International courses, and Public Utility Research Center and the Askew Institute, University of Florida, conferences.
  • "2008 Legislative Session Summary" - The Environmental and Land Use Law Section Reporter, The Florida Bar, August 2008.

Awards and Recognition

  • Listed in Florida Trend Magazine's "Up and Coming Legal Elite" for Environmental and Land Use Law
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America, for Environmental Law and Water Law, 2007-2011 Editions.

Eric T. Olsen Practices in: Administrative Law, Due Diligence/Regulatory Compliance Counseling, Legislative, Litigation, State-owned Lands, Water Resources, Water and Wastewater Utility Regulation, Water Use / Consumptive Use Permitting, Wetland Regulation and Mitigation Banking