The Environmental Protection Agency will be gathering public information this summer and falls as they work to rewrite Clean Water rules. The Agency is not in favor of returning to the 2015 WOTUS rule but wants changes made to the Navigable Waters Protection Rule. South Dakota Farm Bureau President Scott VanderWal says the NWPR had good protections for agriculture they want to see kept in effect.
He’s encouraging not only South Dakota Farm Bureau members but also producers from across the country to be at the table commenting on what the EPA should do with Clean Water regulations.
VanderWal says they were anticipating there may be a push toward more regulations effecting agriculture when the new Administration came into power. He says they must be ready to defend their position against unreasonable regulations.
The WOTUS rule was opposed by most U.S. agriculture groups and led to the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule.
