Posted on 05/30/2014 6:48:02 AM PDT by george76
Members of the Small Business Committee in the House of Representatives urged the Environmental Protection Agency to go back to the drawing board on a proposed rule aimed at clarifying bodies of water that fall under the Clean Water Act.
In March, the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to define what “waters of the United States” fall under federal jurisdiction. The rule would include smaller bodies of water including streams, riverbanks, wetlands and floodplains that may have access to larger bodies of water.
Republican lawmakers have opposed the rule since its inception, saying the EPA down-played the regulatory and economic impact on small businesses and was too broad defining what waters could be regulated.
Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, told the committee the proposed rule is “the greatest water grab that we have seen by the federal government in the United States.”
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Just close down the EPA and these self-induced problems will be gone.
Happy day off.
Good to hear from you.
Welcome back.
The EPA and their communist pals will double the price of food, energy, etc. soon.
as planned.
Nice to be able to FReep again, if only for a couple days.
Thanks. Good to be back. I’m working fulltime now so don’t have as much time, but I’ll check in daily. BTW, I am very near the Otero County N.M. incident where the forest service has cut off water to cattle because of the meadow jumping mouse. I’ll post on it when I hear anythign. They are having a rally in Alamogordo tomorrow to protest it. Could get very interesting.
Thanks. Good to be back. I’m working fulltime now so don’t have as much time, but I’ll check in daily. BTW, I am very near the Otero County N.M. incident where the forest service has cut off water to cattle because of the meadow jumping mouse. I’ll post on it when I hear anything. They are having a rally in Alamogordo tomorrow to protest it. Could get very interesting.
Please let me know how it goes.
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