NCBA seeks Clean Water Act clarity
“If you’ve ever owned the same piece of land since 1972 the year the Clean Water Act became law, you’ve operated under 14 different definitions of the Waters of the US,” (says) National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Chief Counsel, Mary Thomas-Hart. Lee Zeldin, who’s the new EPA Administrator, made two pretty substantial announcements. First, they dropped a guidance document that pulled back some of the prior more aggressive enforcement activity from the Biden administration and then opened up a Request for Information docket for 30 days, so the agency is basically seeking input from regulated stakeholders as they try to create some finality in this WOTUS space. Thomas-Hart says that questions remain for landowners and farmers trying to apply WOTUS on their operations specifically what guidance they need from the EPA to confidently make preliminary determinations on whether a feature falls under federal regulation.
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