The Trump administration is returning water-permitting authority to states. Joining them in that is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Justice Department. Nebraska Farm Bureau President Steve Nelson says that’s a very positive move that will bring forward more reasonable and common-sense regulations.
He says Nebraska’s Department of Environmental Quality is already doing a good job of regulating water permits.
Nelson says the administration’s decision more closely follows closer how Congress intended the law to work.
States now can assume the authority to issue permits for earth moving in and around regulated waterways, wetlands and land that sometimes channels water.
