The Common Sense Nebraska Coalition shared their disappointment with the Biden Administration’s plan to repeal and replace the Navigable Waters Protection Rule. Currently the EPA is taking public input on their plans to rewrite the Clean Water Act. Nebraska Farm Bureau is part of the Common Sense Coalition. Their Director of National Affairs Jordan Dux says the Biden administration is basing their decision to repeal the NWPR on several negative anecdotal determinations.

He says contrary to what the EPA claimed, those jurisdictional determinations did show the NWPR was working.

Dux says the EPA needs to remember that just because a section or any area is not covered by federal authority, it at least is covered by state regulations.

Dux says their Common Sense group also pointed out to the EPA that state and local regulators have a long history of working with landowners to improve water quality.