I have not looked at it in about 4 -5 years. I assure you it was much more sever in every way than the 72 version.. it was unreal…..they had meeting here to try and tell farmers what not to do in 2014 I went to It. I still have a print out from back then somewhere.
I do not know . It could be that trump repealed it… he did a lot of the Obama stuff like that…
I would certainly like to own my own water again… I will check on this… thanks ..J.
BIASJO…..Thanks for bringing me up to date… several issues here…I am sitting here reading the official document that explains it all ,why it was cancelled , who cancelled it, what it reverted too and WHY.
This is the latest and best info I can find on this topic… I urge anyone with interest to do their own research…make your own decisions based only on your knowledge.
I represent this just a approximate guideline of what I have found.
IF anyone wants further info on this topic it can be found starting at the following
page 56626, of the Federal Register , vol.84,no 204/ Tuesday, oct 22,2019/ rules and regulations.
it reviews the extensive regulation pretty much as I remember it except that accurate name is slightly different . “Waters of the United States” is how it is addressed as a “ definition “ as to what exactly is considered the water under the control of the federal agency’s AS GRANTED BY LAW..
the 2015 law was in fact repealed for four reasons and that authority has been returned to the states , as it had been in the past…( it’s not that simple but that’s the jist of it )
A quick summary of the 4 reasons are, it was decided through law suits , public complaints about abuse , legal review and more ,that the power taken by the govt exceeded power granted to the govt under the law.. ( they fudged ) Haa,
> The administration at that time was seen to be doing a power grab by pushing the envelope of their powers to that not granted by congress,. It was not clear or well stated where their limits of their powers were under the law as written,. ( They were out of control)..Haa
> It also , when being presented and implemented ( advertised) it was represented by the federal agencies as replacing the previous regs and rules afforded to the states and tribal groups ,when it was not the intent of of the law as defned by congress.( they were a tat deceptive ) ..Haa
>It also was repealed to avoid further encroachment of federal powers over traditional state land use planning authorities ..( they fudged some more)..Haa
> LASTLY, it was found that the 2015 rules has serious lack of record keeping practices and procedural errors when dealing with the issues they were involved in… ( sounds sorta like destroying your own emails ) ..Haa
Simply put, the democrats under mr O got a bill through a committee , passed it into law , over reached the power granted and got thier hand slapped and their power took away .it was decided they also didn’t properly keep records and abused the traditional procedures in typical situations… the govt had 770,000 written public comments to decide to HOW to deal with these people enacting their own version of the law…
they chose to recall the whole definition section and shut down the feds involvement.
Good call guys , I don’t know who was behind it , but I suspect it was the administration in power during this period… this type of good call by the govt doesn’t just happen of its own accord..
At least not usually .
The controlling authority for e@chi of us seem to be your states own rules again…
I am pretty familiar with mine ,but probably need to update my knowledge of them.
Thanks Jim.
