EPA panel finalizes report on state wetlands regulation

An EPA advisory subcommittee is finalizing its recommendations on how the agency can best clarify when a state or tribe can permit discharges of dredge-and-fill material under the Clean Water Act (CWA) section 404 program ahead of a just-announced May 10 meeting of the full environmental policy committee. The Assumable Water Subcommittee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) discussed during an April 17 teleconference final edits to a draft report outlining how states can take...