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Message From: Sent: To: Subject: Adam Piper [apiper@ruleoflawdefensefund.org] 6/29/2017 2:42:29 PM Bennett, Tate [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=lfa92542f7ca4d01973bl8b2fllb9141-Bennett, El] Fwd: NEWS: SC Attorney General Applauds EPA Proposal to Remove Excessive Regulations Get Outlook for iOS From: Adam Piper Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 6:54:04 PM To: Bennett, Tate Subject: Fwd: NEWS: SC Attorney General Applauds EPA Proposal to Remove Excessive Regulations Get Outlook for iOS From: Adam Piper <adampiperl@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 3:53:36 PM To: Adam Piper Subject: Fwd: NEWS: SC Attorney General Applauds EPA Proposal to Remove Excessive Regulations ---------- Forwarded m essage---------From: John Hazzard <JFIazzard@scag. gov> Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:45 PM Subject: Fwd: NEWS: SC Attorney General Applauds EPA Proposal to Remove Excessive Regulations To: Adam Piper <adampiperl@ gmail.com> Begin forwarded message: From: "SCAG Media" <media@scag.gov> Date: June 27, 2017 at 1:32:53 PM PD T To: <ihazzard@scag.gov> Subject: NEW S: SC Attorney G eneral Applauds EPA Proposal to Remove Excessive Regulations Reply-To: media@scag.gov Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 3/4 ED 002061 00068956-00001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27, 2017 June SC Attorney General Applauds EPA Proposal to Remove Excessive Regulations (COLUMBIA, SC) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson today applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's move to rescind the Clean Water Rule and go back to the regulations that were in place before 2015. This proposed rule follows a Presidential Executive Order that President Donald Trump signed February 28, 2017. On June 30, 2015, South Carolina joined eight states in filing a lawsuit against the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers over the Clean Water Rule, which would have greatly expanded the phrase "Waters of the United States," or WOTUS. Calling it a victory for common sense, AG Wilson said, "The EPA 's regulatory filing has a laudable intent of protecting small streams and wetlands from the risk of pollution. But in fact, it does so through extraordinary means by greatly expanding the already broad definition of `Waters of the U .S.' This expansion would bring many roadside ditches, small ponds on family farms, water features on golf courses, Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 3/4 ED 002061 00068956-00002 and storm water systems under onerous federal regulation. Simply put, our argument is that drainage ditches aren't navigable waters. One of my biggest concerns with this rule is that unelected bureaucrats at the EPA and the Corps of Engineers have virtually no restrictions on what they can determine to be `navigable waters.' This has led numerous South Carolinians to share their concerns about this new rule with me. They have reason to fear that a ditch which hasn't held standing water in years could now meet the new criteria and fall under federal regulation." He says the rule proposed in 2015 would have required South Carolina farmers, ranchers, and other land owners to get permits for basic land uses like digging a ditch or even building a fence. Foresters were also opposed to the change, concerned that a ditch running along a forest road that connects to a larger public highway ditch that discharges into a wetland or waterway would qualify the entire ditch system as "navigable water." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District had blocked the 2015 rule, so the EPA's action, when final, will not change current practice but will re-codify the rules in place before 2015. "We are taking significant action to return power to the states and provide regulatory certainty to our nation's farmers and businesses," said Administrator Scott Pruitt. "This is the first step in the two-step process to redefine 'waters of the U.S.' and we are committed to moving through this re-evaluation to quickly provide regulatory certainty, in a way that is thoughtful, transparent and collaborative with other agencies and the public." ### Contact: RKittle@scaq.qov Ex. 6 This message was sent to ihazzard@scaq.gov from media@scaq.gov SCAG Media S.C. Attorney General 1000 Assembly Street Room 519 Columbia. SC 29201 Adam Piper Mobile:!______xl6______ i E-mail: adampiperl @email .com Unsubscribe Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 3/4 ED 002061 00068956-00003