The National Pork Producers Council is pleased with the Environmental Protection Agency’s release of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule replacing WOTUS. Nebraska Pork Producers Association Executive Director Al Juhnke says the new regulation that replaces the 2015 Waters of the U.S. Rule is more sensible and workable for producers who care about the environment.

He says the final rule is consistent with the Clean Water Act and recent Supreme Court decisions.

Juhnke says the 2015 Waters of the U.S. rule that this rule replaces was an over burdensome regulation that gave the EPA too much authority over U.S. waters that were adjacent to farm fields.

In August of 2019 the U.S. District Court in Georgia remanded the 2015 WOTUS rule to EPA to redraft stating that it violated the Clean Water Act and was clearly in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act.