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Definition of “Waters of the United States” – Recodification of Pre-Existing Rules

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National Rural Electric Cooperative Association filed 2 comments on this docket between Oct 3, 2017 and Aug 14, 2018. 431 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 2906d ago.

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Aug 14, 2018· Comment submitted by, Dorothy Kellogg, Sr. Principal – Environmental Policy, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)· EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0203-15238

NRECA submits these comments in support of the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers supplemental notice, Proposed Definition of Waters of the United StatesRecodification of Pre-existing Rules (83 Fed. Reg. 32227, July 12, 2018). NRECA is a member of the Utility Water Act Group (UWAG) and the Waters Advocacy Coalition (WAC), and these comments hereby incorporate by reference the comments submitted by those organizations. NRECA supports the current proposal to rescind the 2015 rule and to codify the prior regulations that are now being implemented under the final Definition of Waters of the United States Addition of an Applicability Date to 2015 Clean Water Rule.

Oct 3, 2017· Comment submitted by Dorothy Allen Kellogg, Sr. Principal Environmental Policy, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)· EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0203-11670

NRECA supports the current proposal by EPA and the Corps to rescind the 2015 WOTUS rule and to codify the status quo that is now being implemented under the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit stay of the 2015 rule. NRECA is a member of the Utility Water Act Group (UWAG) and the Waters Advocacy Coalition (WAC) and endorse and incorporate by reference the comments submitted by those organizations.

Abstract

As a first step in addressing a Presidential directive, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army (Army) plan to recodify the previous definition of “waters of the United States.”

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