The Agricultural Retailers Association is urging the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to continue to rely on science as it revises the definition of ‘waters of the U.S.’
President and CEO Daren Coppock says there were significant improvements in the 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule compared to the 2015 WOTUS rule it replaced. Most notably, he says, is the use of the term navigable to bring certainty to Clean Water Act jurisdiction.