The success of the Clean Water Act (CWA) over its 37 year history has been its structure of shared responsibility. This approach allows states to protect truly ecologically important and environmentally sensitive areas within their borders while, at the same time, preserving the authorities of states and local communities over their own land and water use planning.
Any legislation that would delete the term “navigable” from the CWA, a term that appears in the current law more than 80 times and is the sole limit on the federal government’s authority, would up-end the foundation of this success.
Stop EPA and Army Corps of Engineers’ Expansion of Regulatory Control Over All Waters
Track Current Cosponsors to S. 2245, “Preserve the Waters of the U.S. Act”
- Define the "Waters of the U.S."
- Protect the integrity of the CWA
- Maintain State Primacy on TMDL's, land use planning and nonpoint source programs
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on Clean Water Act, coal, natural gas and Portland
May 6, 2012 - The Oregonian
EPA and (state regulators) have to make sure we bring those words to life. Surely there are some ways to help be more clear, and one of them is to be clearer about what waters are covered by the Clean Water Act. Let it take its time, meander into a rain garden, meander off a roof.
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- Feds threaten to push dredging through May 17, 2012 - The State
- Multi-legged Stool Best Approach for Farm Bill May 16, 2012 - Farm Bureau Newsroom
- WRAPUP-US farmland stays hot at record high prices-Fed surveys May 16, 2012 - Reuters
