Lawmakers, farmers wary of proposed water rule

water-pipes-flowingBy Matt Reinig | Kingman Daily Miner

Arizona politicians and farm organizations are fighting a federal rule proposed last month that would expand federal control over state waters by narrowing Supreme Court interpretations of the Clean Water Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers state in a 88-page proposal, published April 21 in the Federal Register, that the terms “water,” “waters,” and “water bodies” in the Act would serve as categorical references under the new rule to rivers, streams, ditches, wetlands, ponds, lakes, playas, “and other types of natural or man-made aquatic systems.”

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