Talk:Clean Water Restoration Act

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Good start, but it needs a better introduction and a developed criticisms/commendations section with quotes and arguments rather than just groups that support/oppose it. Needs a bit more info in the introduction as well.--John Benton 11:47, 11 July 2007 (EDT)

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I reverted the deletion of referenced material -- I'm not sure why it was deleted. I also removed the following par pending a rewrite -- while referenced was not a case over a farmer "clearing his cornfield" but filling in a wetland.--Bob Burton 05:33, 25 June 2009 (EDT)

In one of those cases, [1] the Army Corps of Engineers wanted to extract millions of dollars in fines and penalties from a seventy year old farmer who failed to get a federal permit before clearing his cornfield. The Army Corps of Engineer's expansive interpretation of "navigable waters" to include farm fields is what this bill aims to restore, after it was rejected by the US Supreme Court.
  1. ↑ Rapanos v. United States[1]
    2. Retrieved from "https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talk:Clean_Water_Restoration_Act&oldid=426259"