The Environmental Protection Agency is continuing to work on its rewrite of the Clean Water Act. Administrator Michael Regan says there will be exemptions for farming and ranching activities with the new rule. The Agency is hoping to have a final rule in place sometime this winter with public comment taken in November. National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s President Elect Don Schiefelbein says while it’s looking positive for cattle producers, their looking at it with guarded optimism.

He says on the surface everything appears good with the Biden Administration being above board with the final rule they want that will benefit everybody.

Schiefelbein says his group believes what administrators are telling them about a new Clean Water Rule but they’re apprehensive about what the politicians might come up with.

The EPA has yet to say however what specifically they intend to put in the new Clean Water Rule.