Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin promised Wednesday that the definition of “Waters of the United States” will be revised “once and for all.”
“The previous Administration’s definition of ‘waters of the United States’ placed unfair burdens on the American people and drove up the cost of doing business,” said Zeldin during a press event Wednesday morning. “Given the U.S. Supreme Court’s watershed decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, it is time for EPA to finally address this issue once and for all in a way that provides American farmers, landowners, businesses, and states with clear and simplified direction.”
Zeldin was joined for the announcement by Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman (R-AR), Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Katie Britt (R-AL), Representatives Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01) and Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-03), and American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall.
Listen to that press event below:
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