This is possibly very, very evil, dangerous, and all-encompassing legislation.
It’s my understanding that in Maryland, citizens, on their own property, do NOT own water that is in the ground.
Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn - TARGET!
Official Summary 4/2/2009--Introduced.Clean Water Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace the term "navigable waters" that are subject to such Act with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution. Declares that nothing in such Act affects the authority of the Secretary of the Army or the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the provisions of the Clean Water Act related to discharges: (1) composed entirely of return flows from irrigated agriculture; (2) of stormwater runoff from certain oil, gas, and mining operations composed entirely of flows from precipitation runoff conveyances, which are not contaminated by or in contact with specified materials; (3) of dredged or fill materials resulting from normal farming, silviculture, and ranching activities, from upland soil and water conservation practices, or from activities with respect to which a state has an approved water quality regulatory program; or (4) of dredged or fill materials for the maintenance of currently serviceable structures, the construction or maintenance of farm or stock ponds, irrigation ditches and maintenance of drainage ditches, or farm, forest, or temporary roads for moving mining equipment in accordance with best management practices, or the construction of temporary sedimentation basins on construction sites for which discharges do not include placement of fill material into the waters of the United States.
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The new legislation wants control of all properties that may adjoin these "bodies of water".
Unreal.
Someone should invite the congresscritter on a fishing trip, complete with new footware, and we can see how well control of water is done from 6 ft. under.
The next “Global Warming”.
The original was bad enough. Now they want to control every drop from your tap.
Honest to God, in any other nation these folks would be hog tied and hung from the nearest yard-arm.
This person should be on a November election focus alert. Kick his butt to the curb.
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Power mad.
Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes.....could there be a connection?!?
Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn -— what a complete turd.
This is possibly very, very evil, dangerous, and all-encompassing legislation.’
That barely describes this kind of language.
EPA in accountable to no one. They are not elected. They have been running roughshod over the American public for years.
In the Western parts of the country, there are a vast number of stock ‘watering ponds’ which are fed with rain water & snowmelt that flows down the watershed. Take a rancher with 5000 acres of cattle and he has these ponds all over his land.
Under this kind of ruling, he would have no control over the use of the rain or snowmelt and would be unable to raise the cattle that support his family and feed the world.
The EPA is imbedded with people who believe in Earth FIrst & Wildlands Project.
They are determined to destroy America’s ranches & farms.
If YOU have a rain barrel on your property that catches the rain from your gutter/downspout and use it for your garden, you would no longer be able to do so.
They also do NOT want any of us to raise our own veggies, etc.
If you try to put in a diversion to keep your driveway from washing out, you will be under the EPA for permission to do so.
This is scary that they think they should control all of the water. Is this how they will kill us off by not allowing us water?
Would you "journalists" please get your heads out of rectal deflade and use the correct words and spellings?
Relax, everything is under COMPLETE CONTROL.
It’s really becoming laughable, these Marxists, socialists, collectivists, and other-ists. 2010 will go down in history as the “Year of Control.”
Everything they are doing is designed to strip the middle class of any ability to resist government dependency.
“Congressman Seeks to Expand EPA’s Control of Water “ - - - and everything else.
Nixon is forever culpable for the EPA and the damage it has wreaked on the economy and our freedom. One of the worst presidents in history. And yes, a progressive Republican.