EPA Advisors Suqqest Expanding 'Waters' Rule To Oversee Groundwater

摘要

Some members of a Science Advisory Board (SAB) panel are urging EPA to expand its controversial proposal clarifying when waters are subject to Clean Water Act (CWA) oversight to indicate that groundwater in many cases should be considered jurisdictional and subject to regulation, a plan that if adopted would increase opposition to the plan. "In no cases should groundwater that is shown to be connected to "waters of the US" be exempt," Kenneth Kolm, of Hydrologic Systems Analysis, Inc., in Golden, CO, writes in Aug.