On August 1, NACD issued a press release applauding the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for its bipartisan passage of legislation to preserve the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 35 years of successful regulation of forest roads under the Clean Water Act (CWA).
H.R. 2541, reported unanimously out of Committee last week, would overturn a ruling that would have defined forest roads as “point sources” of water pollution requiring industrial discharge permits typically applied to factories and sewage plants under the CWA.
This bill would keep forests classified as “non-point” sources under the Clean Water Act and would allow states to continue to work under the current EPA framework. To view a PDF of NACD’s comments to EPA on this issue, click here.