The Wetlands Coverage of the Clean Water Act is Revisited by the Supreme Court: Rapanos v. United States

Meltz, Robert ; Copeland, Claudia

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Environmental protection;    Supreme Court decisions;    Water resources;    Wetlands;   

RP-ID  :  RL33263
RP-ID  :  RL33263_2006Sep12

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses the Supreme Court decision in Rapanos v. United States, which addressed the asserted jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over wetlands adjacent to "waters of the United States," the problematic phrase used by the Clean Water Act (CWA) to define the geographic scope of the act's wetlands permitting program.