U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., praised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers on the signing of a revised “Waters of the United States” rule, which would provide much-needed clarity to Georgia farmers and landowners and prevent overreaching federal regulation of private and state waters under the rule previously implemented by the Obama administration.
 
“Today’s action by the Trump administration is a relief to Georgia’s farmers and our agriculture industry,” said Isakson. “This new commonsense definition will restore state and private property rights while preserving the appropriate role of the federal government in protecting waterways that cross state lines.”
 
Isakson has long argued that the previous administration’s overreaching rule allowed the federal government to regulate nearly all private and state waters in the United States, including thousands of streams, creeks, wetlands, ponds and ditches.
 
In 2017, President Trump signed an order to require the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency to review and reconsider the “Waters of the United States” rule.