Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation · RFI #32701-26-619

Intelligent Document Processing
for the Division of Water Resources.

AI-powered completeness review for environmental permit applications. Upload an applicant's submittal and receive a regulator-grade findings report — every required field, every supporting document, every Tennessee rule citation — checked in minutes, not hours.

Platform capabilities
Permit types supported
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Pre-loaded regulatory checks
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Tennessee rule chapters indexed
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Extracts every form field
Cites every rule
Cross-doc validation
Supported permit types

18 DWR permit programs and forms, end-to-end.

Coverage of every permit and form on the RFI #32701-26-619 nForms list, each shipping with a pre-loaded regulatory checklist derived from Tennessee Rules Chapter 0400-40, Chapter 0400-45, the TDEC Design Criteria, and EPA NPDES guidance.

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TNR100000

Construction General Permit

NPDES general permit for stormwater discharges from construction activities disturbing one or more acres.

14 regulatory checksDetails

NPDES Individual Permit

Facility-specific federal/state water discharge permit for point sources not eligible for a general permit.

12 regulatory checksDetails

Aquatic Resource Alteration Permit

Permit for physical alterations to streams, wetlands, lakes, or other waters of the State — and the §401 water quality certification.

12 regulatory checksDetails

Monthly Operating Report

Self-reported monthly performance data submitted by operators of permitted wastewater treatment facilities.

10 regulatory checksDetails

State Operating Permit

TDEC permit for operating a wastewater system with no direct discharge to surface or subsurface waters (land application, pump-and-haul, collection-only, reuse).

10 regulatory checksDetails

Plans Review — Sewage Works

Pre-construction engineering review of plans for new and modified sewage collection systems, pump stations, and wastewater treatment plants.

10 regulatory checksDetails

Plans Review — Public Water Systems

Pre-construction engineering review of plans for new and modified community public water systems — source, treatment, storage, and distribution.

10 regulatory checksDetails
TNR050000

Industrial Stormwater (TMSP)

Tennessee Multi-Sector general NPDES permit for stormwater discharges from industrial activities (Sectors A through AF).

10 regulatory checksDetails
TNR100000

CGP — Contractor Notice of Intent

Contractor's NOI to be co-listed under a primary operator's Construction General Permit coverage for land-disturbing work on a covered site.

6 regulatory checksDetails
TNR100000

CGP — Notice of Termination (Operator)

Operator's Notice of Termination ending CGP coverage once final stabilization and site closure conditions have been met.

6 regulatory checksDetails
TNR100000

CGP — Notice of Termination (Contractor)

Contractor's Notice of Termination removing the contractor as a co-permittee once their portion of land-disturbing work and BMP responsibility ends.

6 regulatory checksDetails
TNG670000

NPDES — Hydrostatic Test NOI

Notice of Intent for short-term NPDES coverage of hydrostatic test water discharges from pipelines, tanks, and pressure vessels.

6 regulatory checksDetails
TNG110000

NPDES — Ready Mixed Concrete NOI

Notice of Intent for NPDES general permit coverage of stormwater and process-water discharges from ready-mixed concrete production facilities.

6 regulatory checksDetails

NPDES — 24-Hour Notice of Non-Compliance

Verbal notification within 24 hours of any noncompliance which may endanger health or the environment, as required by every NPDES permit's standard conditions.

6 regulatory checksDetails

NPDES — 5-Day Written Follow-Up Report

Written report submitted within 5 days of a reportable noncompliance event, providing full description, cause, duration, and corrective actions.

6 regulatory checksDetails
TNG830000

UST Remediation — Notice of Intent

Notice of Intent for NPDES coverage of discharges of treated groundwater from petroleum-contaminated underground storage tank (UST) corrective-action sites.

6 regulatory checksDetails

Authorizations / Contact Update

Permit-administration form used to update authorized representatives, contact information, billing address, or ownership of an existing TDEC water permit.

6 regulatory checksDetails

Pretreatment Program — Annual Report

Annual pretreatment program report submitted by a POTW with an approved industrial pretreatment program, covering industrial user inventory, compliance, and enforcement.

6 regulatory checksDetails
How it works

From application package to findings report in a single workflow.

Step 1 · Upload

Submit the application package

Drop one or many documents — NOI forms, SWPPPs, engineering reports, site maps, supporting evidence. PDF and image formats supported.

Step 2 · Classify

Identify permit type and documents

Claude classifies the overall permit type and each individual document, so the right regulatory checklist is loaded automatically.

Step 3 · Analyze

Run completeness against TN regulations

Every required field and supporting document is checked against Tennessee Chapter 0400-40 rules and the relevant permit-specific design criteria.

Step 4 · Report

Deliver findings with rule citations

Reviewer-ready report with pass / warn / fail for every requirement, the precise regulatory citation, and the page reference in the source document.

Architecture

Purpose-built for regulator-grade rigor.

Not a wrapper around a generic chatbot. The pipeline is engineered around how DWR completeness reviewers actually work — checklist-driven, citation-supported, and conservative about confidence.

Native PDF understanding

Documents are sent directly to Claude with native PDF support — no brittle OCR pipeline, no third-party parsing layer between the source file and the model.

Two-model architecture

Claude Sonnet handles document classification and field extraction at scale; Claude Opus performs the deep regulatory reasoning required for completeness analysis.

Tennessee rules in pgvector

Rule chapters 0400-40 and 0400-45, TDEC Design Criteria, and EPA NPDES guidance are chunked, embedded with Voyage voyage-3-lite, and stored in Neon Postgres with pgvector for retrieval-augmented reasoning.

Structured checklists per permit type

Each of the 8 supported permit types has a hand-curated checklist of CRITICAL / MAJOR / MINOR requirements with regulatory citations, fed to the model alongside the application data.

Cross-document validation

When multiple documents make up one application, the system checks consistency between them — site acreage, outfall coordinates, signatory identity — and surfaces every mismatch.

Real-time streaming pipeline

Findings stream back to the reviewer as they're generated. There is no wait-then-reveal — every step of parse → classify → extract → analyze → report is visible as it happens.

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Next.js 15·Claude Opus & Sonnet·Voyage voyage-3-lite·Neon Postgres + pgvector·Vercel
About AutoFlowOps

AI automation and intelligent document processing for the public sector.

AutoFlowOps designs and ships production AI systems for government and enterprise clients — with an emphasis on retrieval-augmented architectures, document intelligence, and PostgreSQL-backed data platforms.

Recent portfolio includes AstroPath — a multi-institutional pathology database architected with Johns Hopkins and published in Science — and a series of municipal and state-agency engagements applying the same RAG and IDP patterns to regulatory, procurement, and constituent-services workflows.

For the TDEC team

Submitted in response to RFI #32701-26-619

This live demonstration accompanies our written RFI response. It is intended for hands-on evaluation by DWR staff. Upload a representative application package on the Analyze page to see the system in action, or jump straight to the Sample Report for a pre-generated example.

Findings reference Tennessee Rules Chapter 0400-40 and Chapter 0400-45, and TDEC Design Criteria where applicable. Regulatory determinations remain with DWR reviewers — this system supports first-pass triage, not final action.