EPA set to regulate ditches
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Seriously ? What next the water in our toilets and sinks are going to be considerd navigable. This agency and others like it are simply out to destroy private property rights. Just ask any Farmer in the organic farming community,or small bussiness owner,or home owner for that matter that has had to deal with these people. Enough is enough !! :x
http://www.examiner.com/article/epa-set ... e-property
EPA set to regulate ditches and gullies on private property
If the Environmental Protection Agency has its way, ditches and gullies on private property could be viewed as navigable waterways and regulated under the Clean Water Act.
Lawmakers, however, are working to keep that from happening, Audrey Hudson reported at Human Events on Monday.
Rep. John Mica (R-FL), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), the ranking committee member, and Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), chairman of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, sent a letter to House colleagues outlining what they see as an "expansion of federal jurisdiction."
“Never in the history of the CWA has federal regulation defined ditches and other upland features as ‘waters of the United States,’” the lawmakers wrote.
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“The Obama administration is doing everything in its power to increase costs and regulatory burdens for American businesses, farmers and individual property owners,” Rep. Mica told Human Events.
“This federal jurisdiction grab has been opposed by Congress for years, and now the administration and its agencies are ignoring law and rulemaking procedures in order to tighten their regulatory grip over every water body in the country,” he added.
“But this administration needs to realize it is not above the law,” Mica said.
In this case, the EPA seeks to regulate land alongside ditches, gullies and other areas where water builds up due to rain or melting snow. The resulting regulations "would make it harder for private property owners to build in their own backyards, grow crops, raise livestock and conduct other activities on their own land," Human Events reported.
Hudson notes that a bipartisan House measure that passed in committee last week now has 64 cosponsors. The Senate version has 26 GOP cosponsors and is gathering steam.
“It’s time to get EPA lawyers out of Americans’ backyards,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) said when he announced the Senate version in March.
http://www.examiner.com/article/epa-set ... e-property
EPA set to regulate ditches and gullies on private property
If the Environmental Protection Agency has its way, ditches and gullies on private property could be viewed as navigable waterways and regulated under the Clean Water Act.
Lawmakers, however, are working to keep that from happening, Audrey Hudson reported at Human Events on Monday.
Rep. John Mica (R-FL), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), the ranking committee member, and Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), chairman of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, sent a letter to House colleagues outlining what they see as an "expansion of federal jurisdiction."
“Never in the history of the CWA has federal regulation defined ditches and other upland features as ‘waters of the United States,’” the lawmakers wrote.
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“The Obama administration is doing everything in its power to increase costs and regulatory burdens for American businesses, farmers and individual property owners,” Rep. Mica told Human Events.
“This federal jurisdiction grab has been opposed by Congress for years, and now the administration and its agencies are ignoring law and rulemaking procedures in order to tighten their regulatory grip over every water body in the country,” he added.
“But this administration needs to realize it is not above the law,” Mica said.
In this case, the EPA seeks to regulate land alongside ditches, gullies and other areas where water builds up due to rain or melting snow. The resulting regulations "would make it harder for private property owners to build in their own backyards, grow crops, raise livestock and conduct other activities on their own land," Human Events reported.
Hudson notes that a bipartisan House measure that passed in committee last week now has 64 cosponsors. The Senate version has 26 GOP cosponsors and is gathering steam.
“It’s time to get EPA lawyers out of Americans’ backyards,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) said when he announced the Senate version in March.
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