Fifteen state attorneys general have asked EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to withdraw a rule that even agency have said created confusion in the agriculture community.

 

The so-called interpretive rule identified 56 conservation practices that are expempt from the Clean Water Act regulations, so long as they meet Natural Resources Conservation Services specifications.  Many agriculture interest groups and farmers have expressed concern that the interpretive rule would turn the NRCS into an enforcer of the Clean Water Act.

 

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