2040-AG13 202204 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 2040 Office of Water OW 2000 Environmental Protection Agency EPA Revised Definition of "Waters of the United States"

In April 2020, the EPA and the Department of the Army (the agencies) published the Navigable Waters Protection Rule that revised the previously-codified definition of waters of the United States” (WOTUS). Following promulgation of a rulemaking to restore the regulations in place prior to the 2015 Clean Water Rule, updated to be consistent with relevant, recent Supreme Court decisions in SWANCC (2001) and Rapanos (2006) (see 2040-AG19), the agencies intend to consider further refinements in this second rule that would take into account additional stakeholder engagement and implementation considerations, scientific developments, and environmental justice values. This effort will also be informed by the experience of implementing the pre-2015 rule, the 2015 Clean Water Rule, the 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule, and the 2022 Sackett Supreme Court decision.

]]> Other Significant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Long-Term Actions Undetermined Undetermined 40 CFR 120.1 33 U.S.C. 1251 No NPRM 11/00/2023 . Undetermined Federal Local State Tribal Undetermined Undetermined 11 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting 111 Crop Production 111998 All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming 112990 All Other Animal Production No No 2040-AF75 Related to 0710 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers COE Joint Whitney Beck 2040 Office of Water OW 202 566-2553 beck.whitney@epa.gov Mail Code 4504T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20460