Received the email below from the "DIRT" listserv and know there will be a number here that will be interested.
>Subject: Re: [DIRT] Wetland Issues in a [DIRT] Easement for Retention Pond
>Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:52:14 -0500
>From: Kelly Haggar
>Reply-To: DIRT - Real Estate Lawyers Listserv
>To:
>“detention basin might become a wetlands”
>Those who deal with raw land sales, expansion of existing facilities, new pipelines, development, and so on, ought to follow this, if not comment on it. Homebuilders immediately opposed the changes.
>Joint Corps - EPA Proposed Stream & Wetlands Rule defining "waters of the United States" came out yesterday in a pre-pub notice. Not formally out in the Fed Reg yet but that will be any day now.
>See: http://www2.epa.gov/uswaters/definition-waters-united-states-under-clean-water-act
Read partially through the regulations and I have come to the conclusion that although they claim the scope is narrower, it is potentially much broader.
You can bet if adopted, the screw will get tightened a few more turns.
My question - when will something suddenly come loose?
