The EPA Clean Water Rule: What do the Changes mean and How will they Impact your Business?
About This Event
The EPA Clean Water Rule: What do the Changes mean and How will they Impact your Business?
Instructor: Erik R. Janus
Product ID: 500957
Description
The proposed revisions to Clean Water Act regarding how the "Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) are defined are complex and vast, posing a number of challenges to both implementation and enforcement to a much wider array of stakeholders since its passage in 1972. These revisions have been the subject of both a massive public relations campaign on the part of the Environmental Protection Agency as well as a massive amount of public response, as evidenced by the volume of comments submitted to the docket. As a result, the proposal has attracted the highest level of attention from the incoming 114th Congress, which has already developed a list of EPA regulations worthy of greater scrutiny. Will the WOTUS rule survive the 114th Congress? If so, what will the impacts to the regulated community be?
Areas Covered
Clean Water Act (CWA)
Waters of the United States definition
Proposed EPA Clean Water Rule
Regulatory affairs
Legislative history
CWA Reform efforts
Implementation and enforcement
Regulation of industrial chemicals
Why Should you Attend
This presentation, in addition to teaching you about upcoming regulatory compliance issues, will provide helpful hints and resources for all levels of experience. Small companies or those newer to the field may benefit particularly from the knowledge imparted during the presentation.
Objectives of the Presentation
Understand the legal basis for the WOTUS revisions to CWA
Understand how current implementation and enforcement works
Identify the major revisions being proposed for WOTUS
Understand the perspectives of EPA as well as impacted stakeholders on the revisions
Have an increased awareness of the current legal and political climate that threatens adoption of the WOTUS proposal
Have an increased awareness of the federal regulatory process; and
Have an increased awareness of how regulatory staff can interact with the government and others during the rulemaking process to effect positive change
Who can Benefit
Small businesses responsible for compliance with environmental laws
Private landowners responsible for compliance with environmental laws
Local and state government officials responsible for compliance with environmental laws
Agricultural cooperative extension service agents and staff
Regulatory Affairs officers from large businesses and corporations
Trade associations that represent landowners, businesses and public groups impacted by regulation of surface water in the United States
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