Source: Jenna Hoffman, AGWEB, 12/7/21


EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published a rule in the Federal Register on Tuesday, initiating updates to the pre-2015 regulatory definition of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.  A June 2021 statement made by the Biden administration detailed plans to repeal the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) promulgated under WOTUS in 2020. New regulations defining federally protected waterways under the Clean Water Act were then announced in November by EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers. 

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