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pre-2015 regulatory regime. These waters would have been jurisdictional under the 2015 Clean Water Rule where they met specific criteria and were found to have a significant nexus to downstream traditional navigable waters, interstate waters, or territorial seas.
The agencies are interested in identifying characteristics that could allow for clarity, implementability, and/
or regionalization in defining adjacency and identifying jurisdictional waters, including whether there are appropriate distances or other factors to limit adjacency, whether there are certain situations where case-specific significant nexus determinations would more appropriately determine jurisdiction, and whether there are certain types of waters with particular features or characteristics that could provide clear and implementable distinctions between jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional waters. The agencies are also interested in recommendations for implementation approaches to address any of these types of waters.
Exclusions from the definition. The agencies request feedback on the implementability and clarity of exclusions present in the NWPR and identified in the 2015 Clean Water Rule or the pre-2015 regulations and the preambles to those regulations. Was the scope of these exclusions appropriate under the Clean Water Act, easy to understand, and implementable? Are the NWPR definitions of prior converted cropland and waste treatment systems appropriate under the Clean Water Act, easy to understand, and implementable?
Did the exclusions have any benefits or harmful impacts? Are there regional differences with these features and/or systems that should be considered?
V. Public Meetings and Outreach The agencies will hold a series of public meetings intended to solicit recommendations as the agencies pursue the development of both rules.
During these meetings, the agencies intend to provide brief background information on the rulemaking process and stakeholders will have the opportunity to provide input, particularly with regard to the directives in Executive Order 13990 and the topics above. The agencies will hold four meetings open to all stakeholders and an additional session for small entities, and reserve a time for an additional meeting that will be added in case all speaking slots are filled in earlier meetings.
The public meetings will be held as web conferences in August 2021, with one date reserved in September, if
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needed. Registration instructions can be found at the following website: https
www.epa.gov/wotus/public-outreachand-stakeholder-engagement-activities.
Persons or organizations wishing to provide verbal recommendations during the meetings will be selected on a firstcome, first-serve basis. Due to the expected number of participants, individuals will be asked to limit their spoken presentation to three minutes.
Once the speaking slots are filled, participants may be placed on a standby list to speak or continue to register to listen to the recommendations. The meetings will be recorded and posted on EPAs website. Supporting materials and written feedback from those who do not have an opportunity to speak can be submitted to the docket as described above. The schedule for the waters of the United States meetings is as follows:
August 18, 2021, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Eastern, August 23, 2021, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Eastern, August 25, 2021, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Eastern, August 26, 2021, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Eastern, and August 31, 2021, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Eastern.
The agencies have also reserved September 2, 2021, from 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. Eastern, for an additional meeting that will be added in case all speaking slots are filled in earlier meetings.
In addition, the agencies are initiating Federalism and tribal consultations for the proposed rulemaking to restore the regulations defining waters of the United States in place from 1986 until 2015, amended to be consistent with relevant Supreme Court decisions. The agencies also intend to host a series of dialogues with state and tribal coregulators this fall to discuss both rulemakings.
Finally, the rulemaking efforts of the past decade have highlighted the regional variability of water resources and the importance of close engagement with stakeholders to understand the specifics of how they experience regulation under varying definitions of waters of the United States. As an agency, we will honor our commitment to listen and learn from diverse perspectives by hosting 10 roundtables representing different regions of the country and encouraging broad participation that reflects diverse views.
These 10 regional roundtables will allow a full spectrum of stakeholders to provide their perspectives about what has worked and what has not worked within their geographic areas in
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previous regulatory efforts with each other and in the presence of EPA and Army leadership. These roundtables will highlight similarities and differences across geographic regions, while emphasizing particular water resources that are characteristic of or unique to each region, and providing site-specific feedback about implementation. Information on the roundtables will be posted on the EPA
website above.
Vance F. Stewart III, Acting Principal Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Department of the Army.
John Goodin, Director, Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Environmental Protection Agency EPA is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan SIP
revision submitted by the State of South Carolina, through the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control SC DHEC or Department, on April 24, 2020. The SIP
revision updates the definition of Spec.
Oil Specification Oil and makes minor updates to formatting and numbering. EPA is proposing to approve this revision pursuant to the Clean Air Act CAA or Act and implementing federal regulations.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 3, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPAR04
OAR20200445 at www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov.
EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
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