Source: FARM PROGRESS, 8/25/15

When it comes to traditional rule-making procedures, the process EPA took to develop its final rule to regulate waters of the U.S. has been anything but traditional. Instead, some believe EPA abused and distorted the normal rule-making process to predetermine the outcome of its controversial rule, which was to add clarification on what waters are jurisdictional under the federal Clean Water Act.

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