Michigan Farm Bureau is calling for the protection of state’s rights when it comes to the EPA’s Waters of the U.S. definitions.
In 13-pages of comments to the EPA, Agriculture Ecology Department manager Laura Campbell says farmers in the state are very concerned that rewriting of what waters are federally regulated would prevent many normal farming activities and the use of new farmlands to supply food to a growing population.
She says the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which was vacated last week by a federal judge, gave farmers clear, consistent definition of what waters are federally regulated.
