EPA ANNOUNCES PLANS TO REVISE WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES RULE

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced EPA, along with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, will work to revise the Waters of the United States Rule to clearly align with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sacket v. Environmental Protection Agency, streamline permitting, and reduce cost of living expenses. The Clean Water Act is implemented using the guidance provided in the definition for the Waters of the United states. The EPA will undergo a rule making process to conduct definition revisions to the rule based on the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. In the ruling, the court specified that the Clean Water Act’s use of “waters” included only relatively permanent, standing or constant flowing water bodies that formed streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes. It also clarified that wetlands were only covered if they had a continuous surface connection to waterbodies that are in considered to be, in their own right, “waters of the United States.”

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