Under section 404(g) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), States and Tribes are authorized to take an active role in the permitting of the discharge of dredged and fill material within their jurisdiction ...

Section 404 of the Clean Water Act authorizes the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) to issue permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material.

This page provides updates and background information regarding Clean Water Act Section 404 and Mining Activities. Contents July 21, 2011 Final Memorandum: Improving EPA Review of Appalachian Surface ...

Steve Samuels, a veteran DOJ attorney playing a lead role in defending the Obama administration’s new Clean Water Act rule, loves the law’s wetlands provision — Section 404 — so much, he ...

Clean Water Act’s authority. The CWA authorizes the ACOE and USEPA to administer Section 404 permitting and enforcement that prohibits unpermitted discharges of dredge and fill in wetlands. Section ...

Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires a permit before dredged or fill material may be discharged into U.S. waters with the exception of particular farming and forestry activities.

The case presented the decades-old question of which waters, and by extension, the wetlands adjacent to those waters, are considered “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) and therefore subject to ...

Those water bodies would appear to fall outside of federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction in light of the Sackett ruling, potentially removing the requirement for a Section 404 permit and a trigger ...

“Obtaining a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit under WOTUS can take upwards of a year, and these permitting delays put home building projects on hold and increase construction costs,” NAHB ...

If the budget increase is included in the state budget, DEC officials plan a two-year process to take over part of the federal Clean Water Act known as Section 404. Permits issued under that ...

Congressman Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) introduced H.R. 3902, the “Restoring Federalism in Clean Water Permitting Act,” on Thursday, a bill aimed at reducing bureaucratic hurdles in the Section 404 ...

Section 404 of the Clean Water Act establishes a program to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States. These include wetlands.