House Oversight Committee Review of Corps of Engineers
Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.Due south. (AZ-04) released the following statement afterward the Firm Commission on Oversight and Government Reform published a report detailing findings from its ii-year investigation into the Ecology Protection Agency (EPA), the Regular army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) and the Waters of the U.s. (WOTUS) rule making process:
"Today'due south House Oversight report pulls back the drapery on the unparalleled level of lawlessness and abuse that has defined the EPA under President Obama. The administration's immoral obsession to attain a limitless federal water grab outweighed the need to consider the police, science or the concerns of the American people. This unparalleled overreach is highlighted past EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy personally and intentionally violating the law by striking the need to offer culling regulatory options and unilaterally re-writing the final rule. The EPA has solidified itself as a rogue wing of Obama'due south far-left army of environmental extremists and I will continue to call for immediate impeachment hearings for Ambassador McCarthy."
Background:
(Courtesy of the Business firm Oversight Committee)
The Clean Water Act (CWA) passed in 1972 gave the federal government limited jurisdiction over certain navigable waters. On May 27, 2015, the administration announced an bureau rule to clarify CWA, which significantly increased the federal government's jurisdiction.
During the 114th Congress, the Oversight Committee held multiple hearings in 2015 (February 26, March 3) and 2016 (January 7, March 15, April 19, June 21) related to the WOTUS rule.
Fundamental findings from the report include:
·The agencies pushed the dominion through on an accelerated timeline that appeared to accept been motivated past political considerations. Some officials involved in the process believed politics deprived them the opportunity to bear a meaningful and full review of the rule before its promulgation.
·The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), which shares jurisdiction over CWA, was cut out of the dominion development process.
·The EPA made no endeavour to ensure the rule was based on audio scientific discipline. The EPA did not comport additional inquiry (which the Corps believed was necessary) to justify the dominion's conclusions.
·The agencies did not consider alternatives to the rule, and even went and so far equally to gut the word of alternatives after the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)stated such discussion was necessary.
·The agencies went to unusual and unprecedented lengths to avert compliance with the National Ecology Protection Act, the Regulatory Flexibility Act, and Modest Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Human activity.
·Public comments were not fully reviewed and considered before agencies drafted the final rule.
Additional Groundwork
(Courtesy of Congressman Gosar)
On January 28, 2015, Congressman Gosar introduced H.R. 594, the Waters of the Usa Regulatory Overreach Protection Act. This legislation has the support of 185 bipartisan cosponsors. Click HERE to read more about the Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Human activity.
On May 12, 2015, the House passed H.R. 1732, the Regulatory Integrity Protection Human activity, by a vote of 261-155. This critical legislation requires the EPA and Corps of Engineers to formally withdraw the agencies' proposed rule that would redefine WOTUS and any subsequent terminal dominion. Congressman Gosar joined theChairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Beak Shusterin introducing this nib. Click Here to read more.
On August 27, 2015, Judge Ralph Erickson of North Dakota blocked WOTUS as a result of a lawsuit filed by 13 states, including the state of Arizona.
On September 11, 2015, introduced H.RES.417 with 20 other members of Congress, which begins the impeachment procedure for Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after she committed perjury and fabricated several false statements at multiple congressional hearings, and equally a result, is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. Click HERE to read more.
Congressman Gosar has too inserted funding riders into appropriations bills, blocked a democrat amendment that tried to strip one of his WOTUS riders and voted at least five different times for legislation that has passed the House to cake WOTUS. In July 2015, he berated EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and submitted revelatory bear witness into the Congressional Tape from senior Regular army Corps of Engineer employees which expressed serious legal and scientific deficiencies with the terminal draft of the WOTUS dominion.
More 200 organizations and local municipalities take publicly declared their opposition to the proposed WOTUS dominion.
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Source: https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2073
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