Source: FEEDSTUFFS, 6/22/20


The Trump Administration’s waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule, now termed the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, went into effect on June 22 after a San Francisco, Cal., judge denied a request from state Democrat governors to block the implementation. Meanwhile, a federal judge in Denver, Colo., blocked the federal water rule from going into effect in Colorado. The 2020 rule defines the “waters of the U.S.” as: (1) the territorial seas and traditional navigable waters, (2) tributaries of such waters, (3) certain lakes, ponds and impoundments of jurisdictional waters and (4) wetlands adjacent to other jurisdictional waters (other than waters that are, themselves, wetlands).

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