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Attorney General files formal objection to proposed federal regulations that will trample private property rights and dramatically expand EPA’s authority.

AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today released the following statement on proposed federal regulations that unlawfully claim the EPA’s Clean Water Act authority extends to stock tanks, small ponds and even dry ditches:

“The EPA has no authority to regulate dry ditches and stock tanks on private property—but that is exactly what the Obama Administration is trying to achieve under new rules proposed by the EPA and the Corps of Engineers. First, the EPA has attempted to regulate ‘emissions’ from schools, churches and apartment buildings, and now they are claiming they can micromanage dry ditches on private property. So today we are beginning the first step in the process of challenging these proposed regulations, which are unlawful and exceed the EPA’s authority to regulate navigable waters.”

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