Transportation and Infrastructure Committee steps in to fight for nation's waters

Earlier this month, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a bill related to the regulation of the Nation’s waters – legislation to provide greater regulatory certainty, protect and maintain the balanced federal-state regulatory partnership, and prevent overreach by the federal government.

The Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 2014 (H.R. 5078), introduced by U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL), is bipartisan legislation to uphold the federal-state partnership in regulating the Nation’s waters and prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers from implementing a rule that broadens the scope of the Clean Water Act and expands the federal government’s regulatory power.  Click here for more information about H.R. 5078.

“I am pleased the Committee has acted in a bipartisan fashion to recognize the role that states must play in regulating waters within their respective boundaries,” Southerland said.  “By turning back the administration’s brazen power grab, we’ve stood in defense of a federal-state partnership that has worked for 40 years.  As a result, we’ve taken the first step in restoring certainty for the farmers, manufacturers, and construction and transportation industries driving economic growth.”