Posted January 26, 2015
The House
and Senate committees have set a joint Feb. 4 hearing on the Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Water Act rule, according to an
Agri-Pulse article available here.
WNAX also published an article available here.
The joint
hearing involves the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Senate Ag Committee Chairman
Pat Roberts is also conferring with Environment Chairman James Inhofe on the
issue, according to WNAX.
Administration
officials hope the rule finalizes this spring, would re-define what streams,
ponds, ditches and other areas fall under the Clean Water Act's jurisdiction as
waters of the United States (WOTUS), according to Agri-Pulse.
Last fall
the House voted 262-152 to approve a bill that would have killed the rule, but
the legislation never advanced in the Senate, which was then controlled by
Democrats.
For more information on the Clean Water Act, please visit
the National Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
