WOTUS Rewrite Sent to OMB for Final Review
The EPA is on track to finalize a new waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule by sometime this year.
The agency sent the final rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget on July 12 for an interagency review, . OMB reviews are limited to 90 days but there is no minimum period of review.
At the end of 2018, the agency released a proposed rule that would include just six categories of jurisdictional waters: traditional navigable waters; tributaries; certain ditches that are navigable or affected by tide; lakes and ponds; impoundments, and wetlands that abut or are connected to waters of the United States.
The proposal lists waters that would not be regulated. That includes certain land features where water is present only as a result of heavy rainfalls, groundwater, most ditches, prior-converted croplands, storm water and wastewater features.
Before the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finalize the rule, however, they had a number of concerns to address.
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The agency sent the final rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget on July 12 for an interagency review, . OMB reviews are limited to 90 days but there is no minimum period of review.
At the end of 2018, the agency released a proposed rule that would include just six categories of jurisdictional waters: traditional navigable waters; tributaries; certain ditches that are navigable or affected by tide; lakes and ponds; impoundments, and wetlands that abut or are connected to waters of the United States.
The proposal lists waters that would not be regulated. That includes certain land features where water is present only as a result of heavy rainfalls, groundwater, most ditches, prior-converted croplands, storm water and wastewater features.
Before the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finalize the rule, however, they had a number of concerns to address.
Click Here to read more.