- In April, 2009, Senator Feingold introduced (and gathered
24 co-sponsors already) legislation, S. 787, to fundamentally change the
definition of "water" under control of the federal government:
- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:S787:
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- SEC. 4. DEFINITION OF WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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- Section 502 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(33 U.S.C. 1362) is amended--
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- (1) by striking paragraph (7);
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- (2) by redesignating paragraphs (8) through (25) as paragraphs
(7) through (24), respectively; and
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- (3) by adding at the end the following:
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- `(25) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES- The term `waters
of the United States' means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the
tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and
their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent
streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet
meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing,
to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these
waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.'.
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- SEC. 5. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
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- The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251
et seq.) is amended--
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- (1) by striking `navigable waters of the United
States' each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United
States';
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- (2) in section 304(l)(1) by striking `NAVIGABLE WATERS'
in the heading and inserting `WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES'; and
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- (3) by striking `navigable waters' each place it appears
and inserting `waters of the United States'.
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- FIND OUT WHAT THIS MEANS - WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqHaUadsapc
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