The EPA Administrator, (click here) Gina McCarthy, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Jo Ellen Darcy, signed the following proposed rule on 03/25/2014 and 03/24/2014, respectively, and the EPA is submitting it for publication in the Federal Register (FR).
ACTION: Proposed rule
SUMMARY:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) are publishing for public comment a proposed rule defining the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA), in light of the U.S. Supreme Court cases in U.S. v. Riverside Bayview, Rapanos v. United States, and Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (SWANCC), and Rapanos v. United States (Rapanos).
Today’s proposal would enhance protection for the nation’s public health
and aquatic resources, and increase CWA program predictability and consistency by increasing clarity as to the scope of “waters of the United States” protected under the Act....
Hal
is stating the EPA is overreaching and expanding it's jurisdiction over
waters in the USA. The EPA and the Army Corp of Engineers already
have authority to enforce laws throughout the sovereign USA, so the
comments are harassing and not appropriate.
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U.S. Rep. James P. Moran (click here) announced Wednesday that he will retire after more than two outspoken and controversial decades in Congress, throwing open a heavily Democratic seat in Northern Virginia....
The sports fishing industry (click here) alone provides at least 800,000 jobs in the USA. Americans spend $48 billion annually on equipment, licenses, trips and other fishing-related items or events. These figures are about the entire country, not simply Virginia. They don't even begin to address the commercial fishing and shellfish industries in the USA.
I
simply want to point to the fact Secretary McCarthy is moving forward
with US Constitutionally sound initiative as defined by previous US
Supreme Court decisions about navigable waters of the USA.
She is applying modern day technology (which will increase efficiency of the agency) to clarify the EPA's rules. This rule has been written in conjunction with the US Army Corp. It could not be better defined with a scope that protects waters for Americans. Of course, we all know our waterways and bodies of water can and have been used for dumping by private industry and that continued practice alone appears to be the concern of the Republicans on the Subcommittee.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is US Representative James P. Moran, a Democrat from Northern Virginia, stating the new rule isn't clarifying enough. He states he has heard from Americans, organizations and businesses requesting EPA increase it's new rule to tighter control of mining practices. He points to the fact the fishing industry in it's multiple forms, sports fishing, commercial fishing and aquaculture is worth billions of dollars US and millions of dollars in taxes to federal and state governments.
She is applying modern day technology (which will increase efficiency of the agency) to clarify the EPA's rules. This rule has been written in conjunction with the US Army Corp. It could not be better defined with a scope that protects waters for Americans. Of course, we all know our waterways and bodies of water can and have been used for dumping by private industry and that continued practice alone appears to be the concern of the Republicans on the Subcommittee.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is US Representative James P. Moran, a Democrat from Northern Virginia, stating the new rule isn't clarifying enough. He states he has heard from Americans, organizations and businesses requesting EPA increase it's new rule to tighter control of mining practices. He points to the fact the fishing industry in it's multiple forms, sports fishing, commercial fishing and aquaculture is worth billions of dollars US and millions of dollars in taxes to federal and state governments.
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U.S. Rep. James P. Moran (click here) announced Wednesday that he will retire after more than two outspoken and controversial decades in Congress, throwing open a heavily Democratic seat in Northern Virginia....
The sports fishing industry (click here) alone provides at least 800,000 jobs in the USA. Americans spend $48 billion annually on equipment, licenses, trips and other fishing-related items or events. These figures are about the entire country, not simply Virginia. They don't even begin to address the commercial fishing and shellfish industries in the USA.
