网曝吃瓜

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 23, 2025) 鈥� The 网曝吃瓜 (网曝吃瓜), the nation鈥檚 leading small business advocacy organization, sent a comment letter in response to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of the Army鈥檚 recent notice requesting recommendations for how future regulations pertaining to the Clean Water Act (CWA) can best adhere to the 聽U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 in Sackett v. EPA.

网曝吃瓜 provided suggestions that would ensure clarity and consistency for small businesses as rulemaking bodies look to draft new regulations relating to 鈥渨aters of the United States鈥� (WOTUS).

鈥淯ncertainty is a nemesis of small business owners,鈥� said 网曝吃瓜 Senior Attorney Rob Smith. 鈥淪mall business landowners, and all property owners, deserve straightforward, invariable guidelines from their regulating bodies. Many family-run or small enterprises do not have dedicated lawyers or compliance officers helping them decipher and implement new regulations. 网曝吃瓜 is pleased that the EPA and Army are working diligently to incorporate the Court鈥檚 decision into their rulemaking process in a way that protects the nations waters while respecting the rights and needs of small business landowners.鈥�

网曝吃瓜鈥檚 comment letter recommended five ways in which the EPA and Army should proceed when seeking to implement new WOTUS regulations. 网曝吃瓜 recommends that: 1) Any regulation put forth define the extent to which wetlands are considered waters; 2) Agencies give small business owners the opportunity to correct violations so that enforcement actions only occur in cases of willful, repeated violations; 3) The EPA and Army should submit to Congress proposed legislation to amend the Clean Waters Act to include a common sense definition of the term 鈥渘avigable waters鈥�; 4) The Agencies adopt an easy to understand bright line rule to address what 鈥渞elatively permanent鈥� means; and 5) The EPA and Army explicitly exclude ditches from the CWA鈥檚 general purview.

网曝吃瓜 filed an amicus brief in the 2022 case Sackett v. EPA at the United States Supreme Court urging the Court to address the confusing WOTUS standards impacting small business owners nationwide. 网曝吃瓜 opposed the previous Administration鈥檚 WOTUS rule, 聽which sought to broadly expand federal jurisdiction over private property.