...confusion about whether permits are needed...
Citizen, do you have a permit to question
the regulatory agency?
If yes, it was a mistake.
If no, then you are under arrest.
But....
Aha, resisting arrest, arrest him again.
Navigable to the EPA means that a microscopic single cell organism may traverse the boundary or your project.
You have been warned... everything on the EPA website regarding this is misrepresentation at the least, outright f***ing LIES otherwise.
For Christ sake, if you go to the Press Release, you see it is in English AND Spanish... but there is NO GOD DAMNED DATE ON IT!
The EPA budget needs to be cut to $0.00. They are taking Taxpayer money and giving it to Ecoactivist outfits so they can go collect biased data for the public comment period. They are lying and saying 90% of the people LOVE THIS PROPOSED RULE.