Still Time to Comment on WOTUS

Still Time to Comment on WOTUS

Ag Information Network has done a lot of stories on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed expansion to the Clean Water Act Authority and talked to a lot of different people with in the natural resources industries most agreeing that the proposal is an overreach of the agency’s authority. The EPA has extended the comment period on the proposal until Friday, November 14th.
Idaho Cattle Association Executive Vice President Wyatt Prescott urges ranchers to comment if they haven’t already.
Prescott: “I encourage everyone to get on online — go to idahocattle.org and it can walk you through how to make comments on the Waters of the U.S. It is our opportunity as citizens to get on there and tell the government to keep their nose out of our water that isn’t connect to actual streams and waterways of the U.S. We need to strive to make as many comments as possible to the EPA and tell them their overreach is far exceeding any, any environmental regulation to ensure that we have clean waterways.”
I asked Prescott his take on the way behind the EPA’s extension for the comment period. He shares
Prescott: “I believe that they feel that there is enough interest in it that they need to allow adequate time for everyone participate. Ultimately at the end of the day, I fear that they might be extending the time line — hedging their bets on how it interfaces with the November elections.”

 

 

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