A Trump-era proposal that would clarify how states can take control of federal wetlands permitting is advancing in the Biden administration, an EPA official said Tuesday.
The Environmental Protection Agency this summer plans to propose a new rule that will clarify how states can assume the federal wetland and waterway dredge-and-fill permitting program under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, Kathy Hurld, EPA state and tribal wetland program lead, said at a National Association of Wetland Managers conference in Nebraska.
The 404 permitting program is designed to regulate construction that could pollute or destroy federally protected waters, or waters ...
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