Posted on 05/28/2015 12:14:57 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Obama Environmental Protection Agency rewrote the Clean Water Act from 88 pages to 2,200 pages.
The new regulations will put the EPA in control of muddy farm puddles and prairie potholes.
The Clean Water Act limits the federal government to regulating the “navigable waters of the United States” like the Colorado River or Lake Michigan. In 1986 the EPA expanded that definition to seize jurisdiction over tributaries and adjacent wetlands. Now it is extending federal control over just about any creek, pond, prairie pothole or muddy farm field that EPA says has a “significant nexus” to a navigable waterway.
The agency defines waters as “significant” if they are “located in whole or in part within 100 feet of the ordinary high water mark,” or, alternatively, within the 100-year floodplain and 1,500 feet of the high water mark of waters already under the government’s jurisdiction. That’s already a lot of water, but there’s more.
The EPA acknowledges that the “science available today does not establish that waters beyond those defined as ‘adjacent’” to these “significant” waters should be regulated. But forget science. The agency says its “experience and expertise” show there are “many” other waters that could have a significant downstream effect. Thus the EPA establishes an additional standard for significance that covers just about anything that’s wet.
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Government Gone Wild
Those who control the water and the food control the people.
Shut them down in 2 stages:
Nullify all EPA Regs written in the last 10 years.
Cut the EPA Budget in half in 2 successive years.
Just think of the Federal Government as a huge jobs program for affirmative action babies and other liberal incompetents. If you are straight white male you cannot get a job at>>>>>
EPA,
EEOC
United States Department of Education
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and many other Federal Agencies in DC
I have often wondered why Ronald Reagan allowed that to happen.
You forgot
Jail all EPA bureaucrats for 15 years.
30.
Well, Cr**!
The Flood covered the whole Earth.
So we are ALL Wetlands, Navigable Waters, etc.,?
This bothers me greatly and it’s an issue which will, no doubt, be used to remove farmers and ranchers from their productive lands.
That being said, I’m happy I live above my county’s 500 year flood plain. Very happy.
Yeah, but you could be one plugged sink away from the EPA stepping in to ‘help’.
Because as a decent man he could not see the potential for abuse involved. He was not the kind of individual who would use laws to cause harm to fellow countrymen.
I didn’t forget.
I plan on filling the Jails with the top tier of this administration.
It was not a matter of “potential” for abuse. The 1986 EPA power grab was an abuse on its face.
And Ronald Reagan was not the naive ‘babe in the woods’ which you portray his as.
What will my Congress Critter have to say? I wonder.
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