9th Circuit Weighs FY93 Law's Bar On Corps' CWA Wetlands Handbook

February 22, 2018
An Alaska land-holding firm is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to bar the Army Corps of Engineers from applying its decades-old “regional supplements” to a 1987 handbook to assess when a property contains wetlands subject to the Clean Water Act (CWA), arguing that a district judge was wrong to allow the manual's use. A Feb. 15 opening brief filed by the firm Tin Cup, LLC, says Congress never revoked a policy rider in fiscal year...


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