Senators Eye 'Specificity' For Bill To Guide Replacement EPA 'Waters' Rule

摘要

Senators opposed to EPA's pending final Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule are planning to introduce in the coming days legislation that will add "specificity" to related House legislation that would force the agency to re-propose the rule, setting guidelines to ensure against EPA simply reissuing the same rule it already floated. "We've heard that stakeholders are concerned that if EPA was told to go back to the drawing board that they would produce the same rule that they did," Laura Atcheson, majority counsel for the Senate environment panel, said April 14 at the National Association of Clean Water Agencies' (NACWA) spring meeting in Washington, D.C.