Industry Wins Early Challenges To Corps' National Wetland Plant Listing

摘要

Industry has won early challenges to the Army Corps of Engineers' recent revisions to its plant database that field regulators use to determine whether some areas are wetlands subject to Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction, after warning that the changes could allow for substantially broader reach of the water law. The challenges were an early test of the Corps' recently created appeal process for the plant listings and come as the Corps is soliciting nominations for 2015 updates to the National Wetland Plant List (NWPL), which outlines whether particular plants are likely to grow in wetlands.