The Western Governors’ Association urges the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers to extend the “insufficient” comment period for the proposed rule, Revised Definition of “Waters of the United States.” The Jan. 17, 2019 outreach from WGA Executive Director James Ogsbury to EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works R.D. James asserts, “The proposed rule will have substantial impacts on the balance of state and federal authority to manage and protect the nation’s water resources, as well as the state-federal partnerships that are involved in the implementation of the Clean Water Act.” Read, download the letter.
