There have been recent reports and released documents that indicate that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. EPA are fighting over the definition of jurisdictional waters.
You can find the article here:
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=2292
The House oversight committee has released documents here:
http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20081216113901.pdf
This all points to the possible introduction of new legislation under the new administration to reauthorize or clarify the Clean Water Act.
The Supreme Court has spoken in the SWANCC decision and the Rapanos decision and so it will be interesting to see that spin that Congress puts on this issue if they get involved. It is definitely time for the Congress to act and hopefully they will follow the lead of the Supreme Court decisions.
We will keep you up to date here.
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