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EPA and the Army Corps are weighing a Clean Water Act test that would cover only water flowing every day of the year. Their own notice says most intermittent streams and most wetlands now protected would fall outside it. Comments close October 9.
On September 9 the EPA and the Army Corps published a supplemental proposal to their pending rewrite of which 'waters of the United States' the Clean Water Act covers. The new option would define 'relatively permanent' as perennial, water standing or flowing every day of the year in ordinary conditions, allowing only one dry spell of up to 30 days a year. Wetlands would be covered only where perennial surface water makes them hard to tell apart from a covered water. The agencies write that most intermittent streams would not qualify and that 'the majority of wetlands' jurisdictional under current rules would not either, with 'a significant reduction in federally jurisdictional waters' in the arid West. They give no acreage or mileage estimates. Public comments are due October 9, 2026, in docket EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0322.
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