OMB Reviewing 'Skeletal' Plan As First Step In Biden Effort To Revise WOTUS

摘要

Biden administration officials are cautioning that the definition of "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) plan currently under White House review is only the first step in crafting a "durable" policy delineating the scope of the Clean Water Act (CWA), and that the details of that policy will be determined later in a second rulemaking. The rule EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers sent to the Office of Management and Budget Oct. 12 is a "foundational" rule, Sara Gonzalez-Rothi, senior director for water at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, told the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Fall Conference Oct 14.