The Founding States made Sections 1-3 of Article I, the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, evidently a good place to hide them from everybody, to clarifiy that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress. So as I’ve ranted in related threads, Congress has a monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not imo.
So the only reason that I can figure that private property owners relutantly ask, “How high?” when the constitutionally undefined EPA shouts “Jump!,” is that property owners are too lazy to read the Constitution to get non-elected EPA bureaucrats off of their backs. So constitutionally ignorant property owners deserve to get swallowed by so-called social Darwinism as far as I’m concerned.
Who has the huge sums of money to deal with these self appointed/annointed asshats? Even if you win it’s gonna cost you a lot.
These regs were in place for 30 years but were stuck down over the word "navigable"
Then a second court decision conflicted with the first court decision. So nobody really knows what the regs are, which is worse than the regs themselves.
Myself, it seems all to obvious because I was from west Texas and have a lot of knowledge of intermittent or seasonal streams and playas.