EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is in Missouri this week speaking with producers about the Agency’s Proposed Waters of the U.S. Rule intended to clarify the Clean Water Act. McCarthy says the primary aim of their proposal is to protect water.
McCarthy also says she wants to dispel myths surrounding the EPA rule.
She also says normal farming practices will remain exempt from Clean Water Act regulations.
McCarthy says it’s also important to know EPA is not narrowing the definition of normal farming practices which are exempt from the Clean Water Act but adding to them with 56 practices listed with NRCS. She says those additions are intended to clarify what can and cannot be done.