WOTUS Deadline Extended To 9/27

WOTUS Deadline Extended To 9/27

Susan Allen
Susan Allen
With your Land and Livestock Report, I'm Susan Allen. The deadline to submit comments in support of EPA ditching the 2015 WOTUS rule. has been extended until September 27. The rule, which was halted by the courts, had more to do with controlling land than protecting water according to AFBF senior director of regulatory relations Don Parrish...tape

PARRISH: Those laws in those regulations were so broad in fact that it allowed the agency to blur the distinction between regulating water and land use. An other words allowed the agency to regulate land use by just claiming the land was water. So it was really problematic for farmers and ranchers.

Parrish says farmers and ranchers have been calling on EPA to ditch the flawed WOTUS rule since it was proposed and that their input is just as important today as environmental groups launch their own campaigns to protect this federal land grab...tape

PARRISH: This rule had a detrimental impact on the farmer's ability to utilize his land we think it is critical that farmers submit comment and we think it is critical that farmers submit comments in support of withdrawing this rule.

You can submit your comment to the EPA directly or through AFBF's website, fb dot org...

We have an opportunity for you to submit comments through our website or you can go to the EPA website. Their solicit comments it doesn't have to be very detailed comments just add you name to the growing list of farmers that understand that this rule was a significant overreach.

Again the deadline to submit comments in support of the EPA ditching the WOTUS rule has been extended until September 27th.

Farmers and ranchers can submit their comments through the Advocacy section of AFBF's website, fb dot org before EPA's comment period closes on September 27.

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