Resolved in the court. This is about three hours. The Rural Economy will come to order. Dear heavenly father we thank you so much for the opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord we thank you for the freedoms that we have we thank you that you have blessed us as you have with the rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing and we ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you. I want to thank ms. Mccarthy. Its related to the regulatory of the Environmental Protection agencies. Many members believe that epa has pursued agenda absent of any recognition of consequences and production agriculture. Epa is trading regulations and policies to burdensome overreaching and negatively affect the jobs of rule economy. The most poynant example water rule, the clean water rule. Ill be frank, this rule is not about clean water. Every one wants and deserves to drink clean water. Rebranding government is
District cou t and is now wit the sixth circuit where they are looking at whether the district cou t has jurisdiction but yo are absolutely right, we are now staying in terms of its implioustions no the cou t is are res arved. We have 31 states, many agricultural organizations awsuits rmainst ciou so you dont think there ought to be reason for pause . Maybe we should scrap the thing and go back to the drawing board and do it right . We w re hear from the f. Under the clean water act you ire restus is that a navigable water . The supreme f. And bikila the clean water rules g ur the word bitch that is in the clean water rules, not it wou so tbie anotheoneten minutes kil i will end with the fact that america is frustrated roking now withlotok governmen. abhat is the number1 issue. The overreaching federal ige eies. I hope ciou wou so withd itsw a little bit, takes time to get this right. The gentlemans time has expired. Five minutes. Thank you mr. Chairman. Director, as you are aware on a
Resolved in the court. This is about three hours. The Rural Economy will come to order. Dear heavenly father we thank you so much for the opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord, we thank you for the freedoms that we have, we thank you that you have blessed us as you have with the rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord, guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing and we ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you. I want to thank ms. Mccarthy. Its related to the regulatory of the Environmental Protection agencies. Many members believe that epa has pursued agenda absent of any recognition of consequences and production agriculture. Epa is trading regulations and policies to burdensome, overreaching and negatively affect the jobs of rule economy. The most poynant example water rule, the clean water rule. Ill be frank, this rule is not about clean water. Every one wants and deserves to drink clean water. Rebranding governmen
Sturds. You talk about the epa doesnt intend to regulate every ditch. We look at actual implementation of the rule. The district exemption appears to leave some room. Heres my question. Is the ditch exemption automatically given if a business, farmer or local government believes its exempt or do they have to prove its exempt. The way in which the law works is that if there is a question that youre going to be destroying or absolute pollutin might be a water. From the epa . Know the landowner their activity would be doing that. On their private land. On their private land or elsewhere then that question is raised by that landowner and they ask the appropriate questions. That usually and often goes to usda or others in field visits way through. But its not, were not changing the dynamic of how the rule has been how the guidance has end lets take worse Case Scenario. Worse Case Scenario some farmer ends up, somebody somehow says hes not in compliance and he muse do x, y and z. With the wa
T the Supreme Court halted implementation of the power plan until legal challenges against it are resolved in the courts. Some members a discussed the flint, michigan, water contamination crisis. This is three hours. Ive asked mike bosh to open with a prayer. Dear heavenly father, we thank you so much for the we opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord, we thank you for the res freedoms that we have. Make we thank you that you have blessed up as you have with thee rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord, guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing. We ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you, michael. I want to thank you m administrator mccarthy for being here this morning. The appreciate you being here. Y theres a reason, a top issue for nearly every member of our ag committee is related to the n regulatory agenda for the Environmental Protection agency. Many members of this committee believe the agenda has been absent