Environmental Alert: Appropriations Bill Does Not Limit Clean Water Act Jurisdiction
12/22/2011
By Katy E. Ward
The omnibus appropriations bill, which passed the House and Senate this past Friday and Saturday, included numerous environmental and energy riders, but it left out one that would have prevented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) from clarifying what is a “water of the United States.” Some environmentalists claimed that such a rider would have denied the Clean Water Act’s protection to one-fifth of the nation’s wetlands and nearly two million miles of streams.
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