Dec. 4

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army are issuing revised guidance to ensure better protection of America´s wetlands, streams and other waters under the Clean Water Act.

The revised guidance replaces previous policy issued in June 2007 and clarifies a June 2006 Supreme Court decision in Rapanos v. the United States regarding the scope of the agencies’ jurisdiction under the CWA, according to the EPA. The guidance follows the agencies´ evaluation of more than 18,000 jurisdictional determinations and review of more than 66,000 comments.

Additional information is available at www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/guidance/CWAwaters.html

Contact Waste News senior reporter Bruce Geiselman at (330) 865-6172 or bgeiselman@crain.com

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