Regulations Keep Falling On My Head
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
With the folks in charge and who are running the U.S. Congress (Senate and House) there is nowhere to run – nowhere to hide! Based on their assessment of the situation, the American Farm Bureau Federation has gone on record to sound the alert that the plans for a piece of Senate legislation (S 787) would really go out its way to extend Big Brother control.
As we have written before, this legislation is trying to go beyond what the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is out-of-bounds for enforcement of the Clean Water Act. The Environmental Protection Agency and those who wish to use EPA authority to control (even more than what they control now) all aspects of land and natural resource-related use see water and the excuse of water quality as being a toe-hold to force their desired outcomes. As long as anything and everything you do might require a permit, they can monitor all things being done and exert their regulatory control to determine what gets done.
Elitists and agents of conflict, who wish to dominate the daily lives of everyone else, see rewriting the Clean Water Act as the tool to accomplish these objectives.
These raids on private property rights and expansion of command and control authority need to be taken to tasks and countered. Our two U.S. Senators need to be made aware, through a strong expression of grassroots contacts, that S. 787 is not an appropriate proposal in the interests of Nevadans.
Our state’s approach to water management, from a quantity perspective and a quality perspective does not need the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the limits of EPA authority to be changed by this legislation. We can handle things just fine with the way it is now.
Further, their involvement and votes on S. 787 will be viewed as indications of whether they believe in Nevada’s rights as a state – or not.
With the folks in charge and who are running the U.S. Congress (Senate and House) there is nowhere to run – nowhere to hide! Based on their assessment of the situation, the American Farm Bureau Federation has gone on record to sound the alert that the plans for a piece of Senate legislation (S 787) would really go out its way to extend Big Brother control.
As we have written before, this legislation is trying to go beyond what the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is out-of-bounds for enforcement of the Clean Water Act. The Environmental Protection Agency and those who wish to use EPA authority to control (even more than what they control now) all aspects of land and natural resource-related use see water and the excuse of water quality as being a toe-hold to force their desired outcomes. As long as anything and everything you do might require a permit, they can monitor all things being done and exert their regulatory control to determine what gets done.
Elitists and agents of conflict, who wish to dominate the daily lives of everyone else, see rewriting the Clean Water Act as the tool to accomplish these objectives.
These raids on private property rights and expansion of command and control authority need to be taken to tasks and countered. Our two U.S. Senators need to be made aware, through a strong expression of grassroots contacts, that S. 787 is not an appropriate proposal in the interests of Nevadans.
Our state’s approach to water management, from a quantity perspective and a quality perspective does not need the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the limits of EPA authority to be changed by this legislation. We can handle things just fine with the way it is now.
Further, their involvement and votes on S. 787 will be viewed as indications of whether they believe in Nevada’s rights as a state – or not.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 6/12/2009 4:04 PM 
Categories: Water
Tags: EPA Clean Water Act Reauthorization Congress
Categories: Water
Tags: EPA Clean Water Act Reauthorization Congress
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