Blueprint for water ‘control’? Pol says EPA made secret maps for new regulatory

[Ptarmigan]

Blueprint for water ‘control’? Pol says EPA made secret maps for new regulatory push
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/27/blueprint-for-water-control-pol-says-epa-secretly-created-maps-for-new/

A top House Republican is charging that the Environmental Protection Agency secretly drafted highly detailed maps of U.S. waterways to set the stage for a controversial plan to expand regulatory power over streams and wetlands, a claim the EPA strongly denies.

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, released those maps on Wednesday, while firing off a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy voicing concerns over why they were created in the first place.

"These maps show the EPA's plan: to control a huge amount of private property across the country. Given the astonishing picture they paint, I understand the EPA's desire to minimize the importance of these maps," he wrote, in the letter obtained by FoxNews.com.

Time to disband the EPA!

[Dori]

What can be done to reverse the regulations put out by this agency under Obama? 

On the news this AM was a property owner who put a pond in on his property.  His  state said that it was okay and gave him all the required permits.  Now the government is telling him to fill it in or they will fine him thousands of dollars a day, because the pond is about a hundred miles away from a stream.

[JohnnyReb]

What can be done to reverse the regulations put out by this agency under Obama? 

On the news this AM was a property owner who put a pond in on his property.  His  state said that it was okay and gave him all the required permits.  Now the government is telling him to fill it in or they will fine him thousands of dollars a day, because the pond is about a hundred miles away from a stream.

Bill Clinton and gang made the rules for building small farm ponds bad enough now the uneducated idiots in EPA are making it worse.....blah-blah-blah......think God I'm out of the pond building business now.

[J P Sousa]

to control a huge amount of private property across the country   

All land and natural resources are publicly owned and managed through the Marxist–Leninist state.

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